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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 twentie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014
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| Edición: | Updated edition / with a new forward by the author. |
| Colección: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Illegal aliens : a problem of law and history
- pt. 1. The regime of quotas and papers. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law ; Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens
- pt. 2. Migrants at the margins of law and nation. From colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire ; Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class
- pt. 3. War, nationalism, and alien citizenship. The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases ; The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases
- pt. 4. Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform. The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy
- Epilogue.