The problem of immigration in a slaveholding republic

• Verfasst von: Kenny, Kevin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The problem of immigration in a slaveholding republic
• Titelzusatz: policing mobility in the nineteenth-century United States
• Verf.angabe: Kevin Kenny
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource (x, 325 pages)
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white, and colour).
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-758011-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197580080.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Society
• Sach-SW: Sociology & anthropology
• K10plus-PPN: 1851196099
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

A sweeping history of nineteenth-century America, this book shows how slavery shaped immigration policy in the United States during the years when states controlled mobility within and across their borders. Only after the abolition of slavery did Congress begin to implement a national immigration policy, applying the policies of border control and deportation to different racial groups that continue to generate tensions between state and federal authority to the present day.