Expelling the poor: Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy

"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.