Expelling the Poor Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy |
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| Author:
| Hirota, Hidetaka |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-061921-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2017 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $58.00 |
Book Description:
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Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.
Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.