Immigrants, needs

As a result of immigration, many societies become culturally plural. Yet, in most cases the groups do not have the same power (as regards numbers, economy or politics). All plural societies need to address the issue of how the acculturation process takes place, at both the cultural group level and at that of their members. 

New York Tribune, June 20, 1877, p. 4. (The headline No Jews Need Apply did capture a certain irony, as A. T. Stewart, whose estate now housed the Grand Union Hotel, was an Irish immigrant himself.)... 

Immigration control. Authorities may stop vehicles and search them for illegal ahens in border control situations. However, the need for a warrant becomes greater the farther from the border where the search occurs [65]. 

In a few minutes a man emerged from the house and hurried over to tell me that he was Battista da Schio. Servants rarely possess family names, and normally have no need of them, anyway. They are often immigrants from the mainland, and for legal purposes are then identified by their birthplace. He was around fifty, a brown-gray sort of person smaller than me, looking as if he might have been chosen for timidity and mousiness. 

The warmth of a fine wool cap was rarely needed in the bland San Francisco climate, and wearing a cap there became rare, even among central European immigrants. Harry Ruben apprenticed himself as a carpenter, and his family survived on the wages he made as a carpenter and fi-om the occasional sale of a cap. Even before the depression, Harry Ruben was a poor man. With the onset of the depression, construction of houses almost completely ceased, and jobs for carpenters vanished. 

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