Expelling the poor Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth century origins of American immigration policy 1st Edition by Hidetaka Hirota ISBN 9780190619213 019061921X

Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy 1st Edition by Hidetaka Hirota – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9780190619213, 019061921X

Full download Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 019061921X

ISBN 13: 9780190619213

Author: Hidetaka Hirota

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. Beginning with Irish migrants’ initial departure from Ireland, the book traces their transatlantic passage to North America, the process of their expulsion from the United States, and their post-deportation lives in Europe. In doing so, it places American nativism in a transnational context, demonstrating how American deportation policy operated as part of a broader legal culture of excluding non-producing members from societies in the north Atlantic world.

Table of contents:

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

People also search for:

hidetaka hirota expelling the poor
how are the poor trapped in a cycle of poverty
exploit the poor meaning
exploitation of the poor in modern society
expression poor thing

Tags: Hidetaka Hirota, Expelling, poor, Atlantic Seaboard states