Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America / Mae M. Ngai.
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy-a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s-its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial differences and by emphasizing as never before the nation's continguous land borders and their patrols.
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- ISBN: 9780691160825 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0691160821 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: xxx, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: New paperback edition / with a new forward by the author.
- Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-368) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : Illegal aliens : a problem of law and history -- pt. 1. The regime of quotas and papers -- 1. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law -- 2. Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens -- pt. 2. Migrants at the margins of law and nation -- 3. From Colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire -- 4. Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class -- pt. 3. War, nationalism, and alien citizenship -- 5. The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases -- 6. The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases -- pt. 4. Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform -- 7. The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Archival and other primary sources. |
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Subject: | Illegal aliens > United States > History. Emigration and immigration law > United States > History. Citizenship > United States > History. |
Genre: | History. |
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