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The qualities of a citizen : women, immigration, and citizenship, 1870-1965 /
The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The book takes us from the first federal immigration restrictions against Asian prostitutes in the 1870s to the immigration "reform" measures of the late 1960s. Throughout this period, topics such as morality, family, marriage, poverty, and nationality structured historical debates over women's immigra. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826575 1400826578 9780691089935 0691089930 9786612157714 6612157712 |