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