Sentiment and the Restrictionist State: Evidence from the British Caribbean Experience, ca. 1925.

IMMIGRATION policy; IMMIGRATION law; AFRICAN American migrations; UNITED States. Immigration Act of 1924; FAMILY reunification

An essay is presented on restrictionist state. It discusses the consequences of the restriction of legal immigration on issues such as race, class and gender. The author mentions the U.S. law which was allegedly a de facto ban on the entry of the "Negro Race" in the U.S. It discusses the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 on quotas by country of origin that reduced British Caribbean immigrants to the U.S. and policies on family reunification policy.