The Qualities of a Citizen : Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965 /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gardner, Martha Mabie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Burgerschap.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Sekseverschillen.
Immigratie.
Vrouwen.
Women immigrants > Government policy.
Social role.
Emigration and immigration law.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Citizenship.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Émigration et immigration > Droit > États-Unis > Histoire.
Rôle social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Citoyennete > États-Unis > Histoire.
Immigrantes > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Emigration and immigration law > United States > History.
Social role > United States > History.
Citizenship > United States > History.
Women immigrants > Government policy > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale > Histoire.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781400826575

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