Human migration & the future : a study of the causes, effects & control of emigration / by J. W. Gregory.
- John Walter Gregory
- Date:
- 1928
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Human migration & the future : a study of the causes, effects & control of emigration / by J. W. Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The Spanish immigration is a return movement, as part of the depopulation of the Cantal has been due to French emigration to the Spanish towns. The French labour position^ is dominated by the great labour shortage due to a high death-rate, diminished birth¬ rate, and the increase in manufacture and mining owing to the pre-War exports having been almost doubled. The United States Restriction Acts were followed by a large increase of European immigration into France; thus the Italian immigration increased from an average of 48,428 for the years 1920-21 to 80,845 annum from 1922-25 ; and the number of Italians resident in France in 1925 amounted to 807,655. The Polish immigration for the same years increased from 13,838 to 40,788, and that of the miscellaneous nationalities (i.e. nations other than Italians, Spaniards, Belgians, Poles, Portuguese, Czecho¬ slovaks, Russians, and Greeks) from 2513 to 17,312. The nationalities of the immigrants into France during 1924 and 1925 are as follows Monthly Record of Migration,” published by the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations, Geneva, Vol. II, No. i, January, 1927] : 1924 1925 Italians • 99>i55 S5>03i Spaniards • 38,960 19,005 Belgians . 40,256 46,787 Poles . . 41,014 30,634 Portuguese . • 6,715 6,008 Czecho-Slovaks • 10,340 6,127 Russians • 4359 1,915 Greeks 903 311 Miscellaneous . 23,650 10,443 265,352 176,261 M. Poincare is quoted as having declared that the number of foreigners employed in France only equals the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29810309_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
