Hidetaka Hirota

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Associate Professor of History
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I am a social and legal historian of the United States specializing in immigration. My major areas of research are U.S. immigration law and policy, nativism and xenophobia, global migration, and transnational history.

Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy (Oxford University Press, 2017).