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Introduction

Immigration

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1391-4, eISBN: 978-1-84950-474-4

Publication date: 30 October 2007

Abstract

Immigration to what is now the United States has been a contentious issue from the earliest days of the European settlement. Perhaps the earliest recorded incident of contention occurred over 350 years ago in 1654, when 23 Jewish refugees sought refuge into New Amsterdam, fleeing what they rightly believed would be the extension of the Portuguese Inquisition to Recife in Brazil. Peter Stuyvasant's objection to their settlement was rejected by the Dutch West Indies Company. The tension between those opposing further immigration on either social or economic grounds and those favoring it has continued over these three and a half centuries to this very day.

Citation

Chiswick, B.R. (2007), "Introduction", Chiswick, B.R. (Ed.) Immigration (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 27), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0147-9121(07)00011-8

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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