Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/uncommontary/id1448543001?mt=2">Subscribe via Apple Podcasts</a> • <a href="http://bit.ly/UnPodSpotify">Subscribe via Spotify</a> • <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Igzzzy3lor6inlhsfiizafgnzla?t=Uncommontary">Subscribe via Google Play Music</a> • <a href="http://www.uncommontarypodcast.com/feed/podcast/">Subscribe via RSS</a> • <a href="http://bit.ly/UnPodStitcher">Subscribe via Stitcher</a> • <a href="https://overcast.fm/+QIbllp_qY">Subscribe via Overcast</a> • <a href="https://castbox.fm/vc/1931985">Subscribe in Castbox</a> • <a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/uncommontarypodcast.com/category/podcast/feed/">Subscribe via Android</a> • <a href="https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/rykzr-81bb6/Uncommontary-Podcast">Subscribe via PodBean</a> • <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-uncommontary-31151862/">Subscribe via iHeartRadio</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Hidetaka Hirota is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches North American Studies and Migration Studies. He earned his PhD from Boston College, where his doctoral dissertation won the university’s best humanities dissertation award. It also won the Cromwell Dissertation Prize. He is an historian of the United States with particular interests in immigration, race and ethnicity, law and policy, labor, and transnational/international history.<br> <br> <br> <br> He is the author of the award winning <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.to/2B0rwq6" target="_blank">Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy</a> (Oxford University Press, 2017). Hirota frequently contributes editorials on immigration policy and nativism to major newspapers, such as The Washington Post and The Irish Times, and have been interviewed on these topics by various venues, including C-SPAN, The Atlantic, and the Center for American Progress.<br> <br> <br> <br> From Tokyo, Dr. Hidetaka Hirota joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to discuss the history of immigration in America.<br>
