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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Aliens Act made Useless: Our Ports Reopened to Criminal, Pauper and Diseased Aliens |
Date | 1906 |
Document Type | Leaflet |
Publisher Information | The Conservative Publication Department, London [National Union and Conservative Central Office] |
Reference | EPH B568 |
Library / Archive | National Library of Ireland |
Collection Name | Ephemera Collection |
Description | Handbill published by the British Conservative Party in 1906 after Home Secretary Herbert J. Gladstone M.P. issued [on March 9, 1906] an "Instruction to Immigration Officers, under the Act of 1905" which instructed immigration officers to allow foreign aliens into Great Britain on the grounds that they were fleeing from religious or political persecution in their respective countries. |
Theme(s) | Displaced Persons and Refugees; Responses to Immigration; Politics, Legislation and Governance |
Nationality | English; European |
People | Causton, Sir Joseph; Gladstone, Herbert J |
Keywords | xenophobia, racism, government, alien, immigrant, legislation, anti-immigration, religion, disease, persecution, social class, refugee, politics, port, pauper |
Language | English |
Copyright | Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland |