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Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act
Literature Immigration and Diaspora in FindeSicle England A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act
Author: David Glover
The 1905 Aliens Act was the first modern law to restrict immigration to British shores. In this book, David Glover asks how it was possible for Britain, a nation that had prided itself on offering asylum to refugees, to pass such legislation. Tracing the ways that the legal notion of the "alien" became a national-racist epithet indistinguishable...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107022812
ISBN-10: 1107022819
Publication Date: 9/24/2012
Pages: 260
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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