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- Title
Beyond the border.
- Authors
Carr, Matt
- Abstract
The article considers how the development and protection of national borders has developed from the Middle Ages to the present. During the Medieval period, most countries had areas of borderlands with changing or contested status, with fortified towns and cities which could exclude undesirable groups such as vagrants, Jews, or Gypsies. Travel prior to the twentieth century was conducted without passports or papers. Laws against immigration discussed include the 1882 U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1885 expulsion of Polish workers from Germany, and Great Britain's 1905 Alien Act excluding "destitute foreigners."
- Subjects
HISTORY of emigration &; immigration; IMMIGRATION policy; BORDERLANDS; HISTORY of immigration law; MEDIEVAL civilization; MODERN history
- Publication
History Today, 2013, Vol 63, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article