123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Don’t Send These to Me: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the United States

Immigration and Ethnic History Society 1

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Park Suite 5 (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University

Papers:

Nativism in the 1890s: The United States, Canada, and Australia
Richard Jensen, University of Illinois at Chicago

An Inhospitable Nation: Demography, Politics, and the Failure of Restrictionism in America
Brian Gratton, Arizona State University; Catherine O'Donnell, Arizona State University

Comment:

Tyler Anbinder, George Washington University and Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University