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Elusive Citizenship : Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights.
Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Critical America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants tended to evade exclusionary laws through deliberate misrepresentations of their identities or through extralegal means. Eventually, many of these immigrants and their descendants came to accept prevailing legal norms governing their citizenship in the United States. In many cases, this involved. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814768693 0814768695 |