The Galveston Movement

Publication Date: June 1914

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Author(s): Jacob Schiff

Research Area: Population and demographics; Social conditions

Keywords: Social Services; Communal Organization; Immigration; Policy

Type: Other

Coverage: Texas United States

Abstract:

The author tells the story of the creation of the Galveston Bureau as an alternate point of entrance for immigrants, with the purpose of directing Jewish immigration away from overcrowded cities and towards the "hinterland," and its recent demise. The Bureau provided immigrants with support and services until the immigration authorities in Galveston, following the transfer of immigration from the Department of Commerce to the newly created Labor Department, began to implement an immigration policy so repressive and so exuberant in rejecting and deporting immigrants that it was decided that the Bureau could no longer function according to its mission and ought to be discontinued.

In Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities 1913-1914, Baltimore, Vol.IV:11, ed. Lee F. Frankel.