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367 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1966)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0367 and id is 1 raw text is: The New Immigration: An Introductory Comment By EDWARD P. HUTCHINSON T HE Immigration Act of October 3, 1965 was a turning point in our immigration policy, an abandonment of the long established and long contro- versial national-origins basis of quota allocation, and an adoption of other and seemingly less discriminatory bases of quota allocation. It is therefore timely to look at immigration as it is today, especially since public information and thinking on the subject seem to have lagged behind the recent and consider- able changes that have taken place, and to take a tentative look forward at some implications of our new policy as we enter the next period of our immigration history. The present series of papers is es- pecially designed to call attention to several aspects of American immigra- tion that deserve to be more widely known. These are, first, the funda- mentally altered character and com- position of present-day immigration, and, second, a factor that contributes to the first, an altered national policy toward immigration as expressed in re- cent legislation and in the administra- tion of the immigration laws. The great migration of the first decades of the century not only brought record numbers of newcomers to these shores: it also seems to have set a pattern of thinking about immigration and a stereotyped mental picture of the aver- age immigrant that have persisted to the present time, more and more out of touch with reality. It is these out- moded but deep-rooted conceptions that have constituted one of the major sources of resistance to change of the basic immigration policy that was set almost a half-century ago. Accordingly, to describe immigration as it is today, a first group of the papers that follow sets forth the various characteristics of present-day immigra- tion that distinguish it from that of earlier years: the altered distribution of national origins, the changed age dis- tribution and proportion of females, labor-force characteristics, the propor- tion in the professions and with special skills, and the migrants of the refugee Edward P. Hutchinson, Ph.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been Professor of Soci- ology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1945. He has also taught at Tufts Col- lege and Harvard University. In 1933-1935, he was a Social Science Research Council Fellow at Stockholm; in 1949-1951, a Library of Congress Fellow; and in 1941-1942 and 1956-1957, a Guggenheim Fellow. He served as Senior Statistician for the National Re- sources Planning Board in 1942-1943 and as Supervisor of General Research for the Im- migration and Naturalization Service, 1943-1945. He is the author of Current Problems of Immigration Policy (1949) and Immigrants and Their Children, 1850 to 1950 (1956), as well as editor of The Immigration Research Digest. 1

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