Hidetaka Hirota: 1 book
Expelling the Poor
Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration and government control on the East Coast have,...
