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Croatians began entering the US in signif numbers toward the end of the last cent. The overwhelming majority were peasants & fishermen. The Croatian & E. European immigrant who began coming after 1945 was generally an entirely diff type. The new arrivals were members of the Mc whose main claim to self-esteem was the leading part it has taken in the formation of the ethnic states set up in E. Europe & the Balkans after the collapse of the Austrian & Russian empires. To N. America they brought as their chief stock in trade their anti-Communism. These emigres feel ill at ease in a democratic' environment of which the older immigrant is now a smooth-fitting part. At home they belonged to an elite, close to the sources of pol'al power & prestige. They are embittered over the progress made by the older, originally peasant immigrants & their US educated children in politics & the labor movement. The post-Stalinist refugees are as diff from the post-WWII newcomers as they are from the mass of immigrants who came between 1890 & 1925. J. A. Fishman.

An attitude questionnaire & personal & soc participation data schedules given to a sample of native Canadians resident in a small Ontario community provide the data for this study. Analysis revealed that att's toward immigrants were not related to such background characteristics as the subject's age, sex, marital status, religious affiliation, ethnic origin or length of residence in the community, though signif positive associations with educ'al, occup'al & income levels were found. Att's varied positively with the number of spheres of activity in which Canadians had contacts with immigrants, their positions relative to the immigrants in soc groups, & the extent that contacts with immigrants were judged to be valuable. The more a Canadian had involuntary contacts with immigrants, the more negative were his att's. No associations were found between att's & lack of contact, the kind of activities in which contact occurred, the native's comparisons of his & the immigrant's standards of living, & the subject's evaluation of the ratio of immigrants to natives in the contact situation. IPSA.

It was hyp'ed that survey res data would reveal a positive relationship between external & internal measures of adjustment among a sample of 209 immigrant Mexican-Amer heads of households or their spouses & a control group of 189 Anglo heads of households or their spouses. Internal adjustment was measured by asking a series of questions dealing with satisfaction in a northern industr community compared to former place of residence; income, occup'al level, & material level of living were utilized as external measures of adjustment. The Mexican-boundaries of 5 areas of Mexican-Amer concentration in Lne city & in the immediately surrounding area. The MexicanAmer names in the 1958 City Directory for Racine, Wisc, as supplemented by various sources in the community. The Anglo sample consisted of every 20th eligible dwelling unit within the boundaries of 5 areas of Mexican-Amer concentration in the city & in the immediately surrounding area. The MexicanAmer sample for the most part had arrived in the community after 1940, whereas the Anglo sample had been born in the community or had arrived between 1900 & 1945. Although the Mexican-Amer's came to the community with econ goals & although they did not compare favorably with the Anglos on any measures, they expressed satisfaction with the changes that had taken place in their lives since making the move. Within each group there was very little relationship between external measures of adjustment & internal measures of adjustment. The data suggest that Mexican-Amer's & Anglos at the lowest SE levels have more success in reaching their limited goals by moving from the Ru North, the South or the Southwest to a northern industr community than do persons at somewhat higher SE levels who have moved there from nearby Ru areas or small towns or who had always lived there. AA.