Published in Methuen’s Social Questions of To-day series, this book makes the case for restricting the entry of destitute foreigners, chiefly Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and Italian labourers, into the East End of London. It is a hostile, restrictionist polemic and is best read as a record of the debate that led toward the Aliens Act of 1905.
A revealing primary source for historians of immigration and prejudice in late-Victorian Britain. Download the free EPUB.