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Author Hirota, Hidetaka, author.

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

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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
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2017)
Subject 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
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants -- Government policy.
Poor -- Government policy.
SUBJECT 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
Subject United States.
United States -- Atlantic States.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016054116
ISBN 9780190619244
0190619244
9780190619220
0190619228