03139nam 2200601 450 991015468570332120170925210729.00-19-061923-60-19-061924-40-19-061922-8(CKB)3710000000971801(StDuBDS)EDZ0001600798(MiAaPQ)EBC4770647(PPN)22888358X(EXLCZ)99371000000097180120170104h20172017 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierExpelling the poor Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy /Hidetaka HirotaNew York, NY :Oxford University Press,2017.1 online resource illustrations (black and white)Previously issued in print: 2017.0-19-061921-X Includes bibliographical references and index."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.'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.DeportationGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryIrishGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPoorGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryImmigrantsGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPrejudicesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyHistory19th centuryAtlantic StatesEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyHistory19th centuryUnited StatesEthnic relationsHistory19th centuryDeportationGovernment policyHistoryIrishGovernment policyHistoryPoorGovernment policyHistoryImmigrantsGovernment policyHistoryPrejudicesPolitical aspectsHistory325.7309034HIS036040bisacshHirota Hidetak1233804MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154685703321Expelling the poor2865730UNINA