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Impossible Subjects : Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition /

"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 t...

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Autor principal: Ngai, Mae M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of figures and illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on language and terminology
  • Introduction : Illegal aliens : a problem of law and history
  • pt. 1. The regime of quotas and papers
  • 1. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law
  • 2. Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens
  • pt. 2. Migrants at the margins of law and nation
  • 3. From Colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire
  • 4. Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class
  • pt. 3. War, nationalism, and alien citizenship
  • 5. The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases
  • 6. The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases
  • pt. 4. Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform
  • 7. The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Archival and other primary sources
  • Index.