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The article presents information on various papers related to migration in North America, published in different journals. One of the papers titled "Ethnic Pluralism in the Connecticut Central City," aims to provide some hard facts on the ethnic groups who reside in three of Connecticut's largest cities--Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven. In another paper "Blood Pressure Changes Among Male Navaho Migrants to an Urban Environment," comparative data on systolic and diastolic blood pressures were obtained on male Navahos before and after migration from a rural to an urban environment. Both measures were significantly higher after migration. Various possible causes such as, change in altitude, saturated fat intake and age, are eliminated. The paper titled "Immigrant Ethnicity in a Changing Politics: Chicago From Progressivism to FDR," describes immigrant political behavior, especially voting and points out some causes of this behavior, specifically, those forces which resulted in strong ethnic Democratic voting by the end of the 1920's.

This article presents various papers related to the North American demography, which were published in different journals. The paper "Migration, Location and Remuneration of Medical Personnel: Physicians and Dentists," by L. Benham, A. Maurizi and M.W. Reder was published in the August 1958 issue of the journal "The Review of Economics and Statistics." The article "The Political Theory of Pluralistic Democracy," by C.J. Burtenshaw was published in the December 1968 issue of the journal "The Western Political Quarterly." This article analyzes the theory of pluralistic democracy as it emerges from empirical study of two communities, New Haven, Connecticut and Oberlin, Ohio and contrary to their position claims that even in the American political system the purposes of the state are the ambitions or aspirations of the successful group. The paper "Migration, Politics, and Welfare," by R.A. Cloward and F. Fox Piven was published in the November 16, 1968 issue of the journal "Saturday Review."

This paper tries to show how, in the bureaucratic relationship between official and client, certain problems can arise. One source of these problems is the gap between how the client expects the official to behave, and the latter's actual performance. In the specific case of the interaction between immigrant and official in Israel, a difference is suggested between immigrants from traditional versus modern countries. The former are more troubled by the official's conformity with the bureaucratic norm, whereas the latter are troubled by the official's deviance from this norm. In our study among 1,649 immigrants from North America, four specific hypotheses were formulated: 1. Contact with the Israeli bureaucracy will be relatively problematic for the immigrant. 2. Immigrants with knowledge concerning conditions in Israel will have less problems with the Israeli bureaucracy than those with less knowledge. 3. Immigrants will describe their contact with bureaucracy as problematic in terms of deviations from bureaucratic norms, rather than in terms of bureaucratic norms per se. 4. Those whose contacts have been problematic will tend to be low on subjective adjustment. Findings are brought as clear evidence supporting these hypotheses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a calendar of meetings in North America from May-June, 1965. The Council for Exceptional Children meeting will be held on June 29, 1965. The National Association for Children With Learning Disabilities annual conference will be held on May 6-8. American Association on Mental Deficiency annual meeting will be held on June 8-12. The American Physical Therapy Association annual conference will be held on June 20-25. The convention of the American Instructors of the Deaf will be held on June 21-25.

The article focuses on the social and political condition of North America. A normal North American is still not fully aware of the definition of the word "democracy." The government in practice is not quite of, by, and for the people; the press and radio are not quite as free as we like to think; all men in our country, regardless of racial or national origin, are not always treated as though they were equal; and equality of economic opportunity is at best limited. Comparisons have been made with their closest neighbors, the South Americans, to develop the trend of democracy in the nation. In the U.S., for all the social differences to be found within it, for all the distinction between "the classes" and "the masses," between the intellectuals and the common people, there is an essential political and intellectual homogeneity. This becomes evident by contrast with countries like Mexico and Guatemala where there is a cleavage between a relatively few people who identify themselves with the nation as such, who read newspapers and magazines and listen to the radio and who partake in other ways of the civilization of the world. Of the three million-odd people of Guatemala, only a few hundred thousand have knowledge of the world in which they live. In Mexico one of the great social problems is recognized to be the "incorporation" of the masses of folk peoples into the nation.

Apart from certain old works which are considered to be of fundamental importance, this bibliography deals more particularly with studies published since 1945. The choice of this date is not absolutely arbitrary. It has been mainly in the post-war period, as the hitherto colonial people began to rise and the least well-equipped countries made their claims on the victorious nations, that the specific problems of the underdeveloped countries have been forced on the attention of a wider public. Political considerations have, to a very large extent, stimulated scientific research and are still doing so, as is shown by the number of works being published. North American anthropology has given rise to a great number of research projects directly dealing with the subject of this study, most of which are well known, at the same time, the European nations, which have often had long experience in countries overseas, have, on their side, accumulated works which, although not presented according to any uniform system, are of great importance. Great regions which are undoubtedly underdeveloped economically-most of the South American continent, Asia and Africa, Africa has least often been the subject of systematic investigations and surveys.