Nativism and the End of the Mass Migration of the 1840s and 1850s
研究了1855年美国移民骤降的原因，认为本土主义兴起而非经济萧条或战争是主因，对理解移民周期性波动有启示。
In 1855 the volume of immigration to the United States dropped precipitously, signaling the end of the first mass migration of Europeans. Although other work blames the decline on an economic depression, the outbreak of the Crimean War, or the improvement of conditions in Europe, this article argues that the rise of nativism was the initiating cause of the decline. This result is important because it affects our view of the factors that have cyclical effects on the volume of immigration.