Expelling the poor: atlantic seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of american immigration policy
Auteur :
Hirota, Hidetaka
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780190619213
Date de publication :
23 févr. 2017
Dimensions :
23,6 x 15,7 x 3,1 cm
Poids :
590 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.