The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

ISBN-13: 9780197580080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 328 str.

Kevin (Glucksman Professor of History and Director of Glucks

Recenzje

The most comprehensive and penetrating analysis of nineteenth-century US immigration policy that I have read. Kevin Kenny's brilliant reconstruction of the intersecting efforts to police the movement of enslaved, immigrant, and indigenous populations will change the way we think about the historyDLand the current stateDLof America's immigration regime.

O autorze

Kevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History and director of Glucksman Ireland House at New York University. He is the author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2013), The American Irish: A History, and Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (OUP, 1998), among other books. President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, Kenny came to the United States as an immigrant in the 1980s.