(The national perspective is excerpted from Out of Many, One - A History of the Immigration and Refugee Services of America * Network, 1998, IRSA, by Margi Dunlap and Nicholas Montalto)
If all nationalities were respected, all would also be included. Young Women's Christian Associations, by their name alone, created a dilemma for the growing International Institute movement: age, gender, and religion. In 1933, the International Institutes voted to separate from the YWCAs, and Edith Terry Bremer became the first Executive Secretary of the independent National Institute of Immigrant Welfare. The new organization would serve people of both genders and all ages and would not align itself with any religion because immigrant groups represented so many faiths.
* IRSA changes its name to US Committee for Refugees & Immigrants (USCRI) in 2004
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