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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154685703321

Autore

Hirota Hidetak

Titolo

Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy / / Hidetaka Hirota

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-061923-6

0-19-061924-4

0-19-061922-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Classificazione

HIS036040

Disciplina

325.7309034

Soggetti

Deportation - Government policy - United States - History - 19th century

Irish - Government policy - United States - History - 19th century

Poor - Government policy - United States - History - 19th century

Immigrants - Government policy - United States - History - 19th century

Prejudices - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 19th century

Atlantic States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 19th century

United States Ethnic relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Shovelling Out" : Ireland and the Emigration of the Poor -- Problems of Irish Poverty : The Rise of State Control on the Atlantic Seaboard -- Different Paths : The Development of Immigration Policy in Antebellum Coastal States -- Radical Nativism : The Know Nothing Movement and the Citizenship of Paupers -- A New Birth of Poverty : Pauper Policy in the Age of the Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Journey Continued : Post-Deportation Lives in Britain and Ireland -- The Moment of Transition : State Officials, the Federal Government, and the Formation of American Immigration Policy -- Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.