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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardner, Martha Mabie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I : Wives, mothers, and maids
  • Immigrants, citizens, and marriage
  • The limits of derivative citizenship
  • Seeing difference
  • Constructing a moral border
  • Likely to become
  • Toil and trouble
  • II : Citizens, residents, and non-Americans
  • When Americans are not citizens
  • When citizens are not white
  • Reproducing the nation
  • Women in need
  • At work in the nation
  • III: Marriage, family, and the law
  • Families, made in America
  • Marriage and morality
  • Regulating belonging.

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