Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us: Policies, Perceptions and the Presence of Aliens in Elizabethan England

Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us: Policies, Perceptions and the Presence of Aliens in Elizabethan England
ISBN-10
1134976399
ISBN-13
9781134976393
Category
History
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2003-09-02
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Laura Hunt Yungblut

Description

During the reign of Elizabeth I, large numbers of aliens immigrated into England for various reasons, most notably to escape religious persecution and the wars that wrecked the Continent in the sixteenth century. Much like governments facing immigration issues today, England's governors struggled to strike a balance between the potentially beneficial and the potentially dangerous aspects of the aliens' presence. Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us focuses on the link between the aliens, native English and the central government. It explores policies and attitudes, bringing new perspectives to familiar documents as well as introducing documents rarely seen in the subject's scholarship.

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