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100 1  Hirota, Hidetaka,|eauthor. 
245 10 Expelling the poor :|bAtlantic Seaboard states and the 
       nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy 
       /|cHidetaka Hirota. 
263    1701 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2017] 
300    xii, 302 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520 2  "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"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Irish|xGovernment policy|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th 
       century. 
650  0 Deportation|xGovernment policy|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  0 Immigrants|xGovernment policy|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  0 Prejudices|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.|2bisacsh 
650  9 Poor|xGovernment policy|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th 
       century. 
651  0 United States|xEmigration and immigration|xGovernment 
       policy|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 Atlantic States|xEmigration and immigration|xGovernment 
       policy|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 United States|xEthnic relations|xHistory|y19th century. 
690  7 Poor people|xGovernment policy|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y19th century.|2local DEI term 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aHirota, Hidetaka, author.|tExpelling 
       the poor|dNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
       |z9780190619220|w(DLC) 2016054116 
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