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

• Autore: Hirota Hidetak
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 325.7309034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Classificazione: HIS036040
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Expelling the poor
• ISBN: 0-19-061923-6; 0-19-061924-4; 0-19-061922-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154685703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II