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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Съдържание:
- 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.