This article investigates the debates surrounding immigration to England some three hundred years ago and considers why it was that between the 1680s and the 1710s a discernible change occurred in how migrants were treated. Work on the emergence of a “British” Protestant identity and its relationship with continental Europe, on changing ideas of Englishness and on the campaign for a relaxation in rights of access to the English and colonial labor market are considered. The shift in popular and political responses to the arrival of refugees in England in 1709 provides a contrast to the charitable welcome extended to migrants a generation before and offers an opportunity to see that views of foreign migrants changed for a combination of reasons. True vocalization of “England’s first nationalist revolution” of 1688-89 came one generation later in 1709. Then, the first full pronouncement of a rhetoric of “suitability” for English society and of economic utility meant that a refugee community was denied Protestant charity, denied employment, and was directed away from England’s shores.

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陌生人来吞噬这片土地：18 世纪早期英国对外国移民的看法不断变化

本文调查了大约三百年前围绕移民到英格兰的辩论，并考虑了为什么在 1680 年代和 1710 年代之间移民的待遇发生了明显的变化。考虑了“英国”新教身份的出现及其与欧洲大陆的关系、改变英国人的观念以及放宽进入英国和殖民地劳动力市场的权利的运动。1709 年对英国难民抵达的民众和政治反应的转变与一代人之前对移民的慈善欢迎形成了对比，并提供了一个机会，可以看到外国移民的观点因多种原因而发生变化。