Hidetaka Hirota

Expelling the Poor

Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190619213
• ISBN-10: 019061921X
• Artikelnr.: 47863710

Autorenporträt

Hidetaka Hirota is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the City College of New York and formerly a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 "Shovelling Out": Ireland and the Emigration of the Poor
* Chapter 2 Problems of Irish Poverty: The Rise of State Control on the
Atlantic Seaboard
* Chapter 3 Different Paths: The Development of Immigration Policy in
Antebellum Coastal States
* Chapter 4 Radical Nativism: The Know Nothing Movement and the
Citizenship of Paupers
* Chapter 5 A New Birth of Poverty: Pauper Policy in the Age of the
Civil War and Reconstruction
* Chapter 6 The Journey Continued: Post-Deportation Lives in Britain
and Ireland
* Chapter 7 The Moment of Transition: State Officials, the Federal
Government, and the Formation of American Immigration Policy
* Conclusion
* Appendices
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index