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

Title
Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy / Hidetaka Hirota.
Author
Hirota, Hidetaka
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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xii, 302 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana, and California, it provides the first sustained study of immigration control conducted by states prior to the introduction of federal immigration law in the late nineteenth century. The influx of impoverished Irish immigrants over the first half of the nineteenth century led nativists in New York and Massachusetts to develop policies for prohibiting the landing of destitute foreigners and deporting those already resident in the states to Europe, Canada, or other American states. No other coastal state engaged in immigration regulation with the same level of legislative effort and success as the two states. By locating the roots of American immigration control in cultural prejudice against the Irish and, more essentially, economic concerns about their poverty in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, this book fundamentally revises the history of American immigration policy, which has largely focused on anti-Asian racism on the West Coast. By investigating state officials' practices of illegal removal, such as the overseas deportation of those who held American citizenship, this book reveals how the state-level treatment of destitute immigrants set precedents for the assertion by American officers of unrestricted power against undesirable aliens, which characterized later federal control, and demonstrates how American deportation policy operated as part of a broader legal culture of excluding non-producing members from societies in the north Atlantic world"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"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.
Call Number
JFE 17-2065
ISBN
  • 9780190619213
  • 019061921X
LCCN
2016035614
OCLC
957133206
Author
Hirota, Hidetaka, author.
Title
Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy / Hidetaka Hirota.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-2065
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