Only one event this week, for the last week of term:

Thursday 10 March

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar

5pm, History Faculty, Room 12

Lloyd Bonfield  (New York Law School)

Give me your wealthy: Immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England  

The current immigration debate focuses on the admission to residence and citizenship of those fleeing poverty and civil unrest. But there are also pathways to residence and citizenship that seek to attract a very different sort of migrant: the wealthy. The present debate provides an interesting backdrop for previous ones. This paper focuses on the debate over migration c.1700 which culminated in the short-lived “Act for naturalizing Foreign Protestants“. Although partly inspired by the plight of foreign Protestants, the conversation focused primarily on economic, demographic and legal issues, a cluster of concerns that were absent from earlier debates over immigration.