Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America /
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...
| Основен автор: | Ngai, Mae M. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Издание: | New paperback edition / with a new forward by the author. |
| Серия: |
Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
xxx, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-368) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691160825 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0691160821 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |