Around the word emigrant or immigrant hovers always the idea of an exchange of habits, customs, and language of one country with those of another.
We would surely not call a person an immigrant who comes from a village of Maine or New Hampshire to Boston, nor even if he should come from the far South or from the extreme West.
We call a person an immigrant who comes to us from a distance of at least a few thousand miles, and from a country that differs from ours in the forms of government as well as in customs and manners.
It seemed as if here was an immigrant boy for whom much should be done.
Kayan designation of them as IVAN (immigrant or wanderer) has been adopted by large numbers of them in recent years and modified into Iban, so that the expression KAMI IBAN is now frequently used by them.
Having passed the immigrant tests, we found ourselves set out on the dock, free to go where we pleased.
The tenderer we treat the immigrant who seeks our hospitality, the harder will we smash him when he betrays us.
When I found myself head of the Labor Department one of my earliest duties was to inspect the immigrant stations at Boston and New York.
I think work for the immigrant is so very interesting, don't you?
For instance, our officials in the United States are constantly occupied, in assisting British immigrant working men and women who are suffering hardships under the stringent provisions of the United States immigration laws.
Yet with the progress of events her responsibilities must yearly enlarge: for both the immigrant nationalities within and the world-problems without her borders seem to summon her to a deeper education and to wider obligations.
Certainly the children of immigrant parents, although born and brought up in this country, are often subjected to sneers and taunts by their more fortunate playfellows, even within the walls of the American public schools.
Both my uncle and myself spoke German reasonably well, and our original plan was to travel in the character of immigrant trinket and essence pedlers.
The one immigrant who does not keep step, who, having fallen out of the ranks, has been ordered to the rear, is the Chinaman, who brought neither wife nor children to push him ahead.
As I showed in the case of the immigrant Jews and the Italians, we have captured his recruits.
Under the system at present in force a special roster of medical referees has been compiled, and no person is accepted as an assisted immigrant without a certificate of physical and mental fitness from one of these doctors.
Macgregor, who was an exceedingly able and far-sighted public servant, pointed out that the evil done by the introduction of an undesirable class of immigrant is never finished.
America is every immigrantand entrepreneur from Boston to Austin to Silicon Valley, racing to shape a better future.
It is charged against this Italian immigrant that he is dirty, and the charge is true.
Venia was the principal Venus immigrant colony of Earth's Western Hemisphere.
I knew this must be the immigrant family the conductor had told us about.
Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in theimmigrant car ahead there was a family from 'across the water' whose destination was the same as ours.
To have been an immigrant from the Missouri to the Columbia was an experience to which nothing else on earth is comparable.
Cornelius Gilliam, animmigrant of 1845 from Missouri, was chosen colonel of the regiment.
The wisest plan, therefore, that an immigrantof this sort can pursue is to go to an estancia as an apprentice for a nominal salary of twenty or thirty pounds a year, on a three or four year's contract.
In giving this short sketch of the prospects open to the English immigrant no mention has been made of the immigrant labourer or artisan.
The immigrant required is the "colonist," to whom the country is already beginning to owe much of its prosperity.
The chief objection, however, to the policy is that it invites a class of immigrant who is really not required in the country and who has taken to settling in the capital instead of scattering into the camp.
Regarded, however, as a country for the Italian immigrant the prospects are certainly better, although not so dazzling as he is led to believe in his own country.
The immigrant instrument makers were not confined to those working in glass, however.
One of the earliest immigrant instrument makers arrived in Boston in 1739.
Instruments of Metal Pre-Revolutionary Immigrant Makers According to present evidence, only a few makers of metal instruments emigrated from England to the Colonies before the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
In almost every instance, the immigrant instrument makers settled in the major cities, which were the shipping centers of the new country.
One of the earlier immigrant craftsmen was Charles Blundy, a London watchmaker who established himself on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1753.
In the popular or theoretical sense an immigrant is a person of foreign birth who is crossing the country's boundary and entering the United States with intent to remain and become an addition to the population of the country.
The immigrant comes to us, largely from countries in which the Church and the State, the cross and the sword, are one.
Mechanically and with quick movements we are examined for general physical defects and for the dreaded trachoma, an eye disease, the prevalence of which is greater in the imagination of some statisticians than it is on board immigrant vessels.
The German immigrant invariably has a good common-school education, although not always possessed of culture, and, if he has it, he does not find much of it among those with whom his lot is cast.
An immigrant in the statistical sense is a person liable for and paying the head tax.
But the foregoing definition is modified by a subsequent paragraph of the same circular which excludes from the immigrant class "citizens of British North America and Mexico coming direct therefrom by sea or rail.
The concessions were in the hands of irresponsible people and I remember the time when the restaurant was a den of thieves, in which the immigrant was robbed by the proprietor, whose employees stole from him and from the immigrant also.
He believes that we shall be the inheritors of all the disagreeable racial characteristics which the immigrantbrings with him.
The average immigrant obeys mechanically; his attitude towards the inspector being one of great respect.
Every immigrant entering the Island of Cuba from any country must be provided with $30 in cash before being released from Triscornia, the receiving station on the Bay of Havana.
Moreover, in America differences in nationality and in speech among immigrant workers is often an effective factor in preventing the assertion of their interests.
The immigrant from Europe, plunged into the trying conditions of city life, suffers in health and in morals, and often becomes a burden upon society.
The smoky industrialism fostered by protection often puts a premium on a low grade of immigrant and keeps him an alien to the American spirit.
But more important than this purely linguistic hostility, there is a deeper social enmity, and it urges the immigrant to change his name with even greater force.
This disdain tends to pursue an immigrant with extraordinary rancor when he bears a name that is unmistakably foreign and hence difficult to the native, and open to his crude burlesque.
A Jewish immigrant almost invariably refers to his son as his /boy/, though strangely enough he calls his daughter his /meidel/.
He opens the eyes of the immigrant to his opportunities in the United States, and helps him to get employment.
He greets the immigrant with an intelligent and careful scrutiny as to his health and general welfare.
The population of Canada is still under eight millions, but even cautious Canadians predict that in less than twenty years it will be twenty millions, and that by 1930 the immigrant population will exceed the native-born population.
A Canadian writer says he knows of specific cases in which English immigrant buyers paid $30 and $15 an acre respectively for farms.
The Canadian Governments are all very keenly alive to the social and economic value of every immigrant of the right sort.
A prospective immigrant has to run the gauntlet of strict inquiry and examination with regard to his health and habits.
There are tens of thousands of families now represented in the Dominion where a dozen years ago such families might have been counted by hundreds, and the type of immigrant is changed.
