"Unwelcome Strangers": Acadian Antecedents to United States Immigration Philosophy & Practice
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798662408418
- Category
- Acadians
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Helen Isabella Gosserand-Lowderman
Description
During the American Colonial Period, in the absence of uniform migration regulation, British colonists in the Atlantic seaboard colonies reacted to the arrival of thousands of refugee Acadians in significant ways that would echo in later United States immigration philosophy and policy. As both French descendants and French Catholics, the Acadians embodied the most widely feared threats to national security and endangered ethno-religious identity formation in the British Atlantic seaboard colonies. The scale of the Acadian crisis overwhelmed the few inconsistently applied policies previously put in place to prevent such an influx of unwelcome migrant strangers and caused widespread anxiety over the feasibility of assimilation. The Acadian story is essential to understanding the wider narrative of the transition from British colonial poor law to United States immigration law because it provides one of the earliest examples of poor law applied extensively to foreign migrants. It also provides antecedents to the philosophy and practical methods of migrant management later implemented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a legacy still felt to this day. These antecedents include deportation and detainment, assimilation strategies, and family separation.
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