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The post-World War I period brought a complete change of attitude towards immigration on the part of the principal immigrant receiving country, the United States of America. During the 10 years preceding the War, this country had absorbed an average of a million Europeans per year. The introduction by the United States of a drastically restrictive immigration policy was therefore bound to have devastating effects on the whole movement.
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Citroen, H.A. (1951). European Emigration in the Inter-War Period. In: European Emigration Overseas Past and Future. Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0633-5_3
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