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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...

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Main Author: Ngai, Mae M.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Edition: New paperback edition / with a new forward by the author.
Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Check holdings at Paniza Library, AUBG Call Number: JV6483 .N49 2014