Status and Migration.

This article examines the certain "laws" of migration in the light of some principles of migration applied to American migrants to Shanghai, China. There are some types of migration in which there is no possibility of the approach being a gradual one. The leap from Europe or America to China is a long one. A great seaport of a widely divergent culture presents to alien migrants a situation almost wholly novel to which they are forced to adapt themselves, or return home, or perish. Shanghai has also been the starting point for many groups of Chinese students who have gone abroad to study. The exclusion law of the U.S. is a factor strongly inhibiting a greater countercurrent of migration out of the Oriental seaport, Shanghai in recent years. It has been seen that, the Chinese who have gone from Shanghai to the U.S. have done so because aliens have entered the city and displaced the natives. As for the Americans who migrate to Shanghai and then return to their homeland, there is a selective process going on. It is unlikely that many Americans, turning their backs upon the U.S., go to Shanghai determined to make it their adopted home and China their country.