Expelling the poor: atlantic seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of american immigration policy
Auteur :
Hirota, Hidetaka
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780190055561
Date de publication :
13 août 2019
Dimensions :
23,1 x 15,5 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
454 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.