Expelling the Poor

Expelling the Poor

Author: Hidetaka Hirota

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 019061921X

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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.