National Insecurities : Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882 /

For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moloney, Deirdre M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Noncitizens > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Deportation.
Illegal immigration.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States > History.
Deportation > United States > History.
Noncitizens > Government policy > United States > History.
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women, sexuality, and economic dependency in early U.S. deportation policy
  • Interrogating sexuality in Europe, urban America, and along the Mexican border
  • Gender, dependency, and the likely to become a public charge provision
  • Loathsome or contagious : immigrant bodies, disease, and Eugenics and the borders
  • Clash of civilizations : whiteness, orientalism, and the limits of religious tolerance at the borders
  • Deportation based on politics, labor, and ideology
  • Immigrants' rights as human rights
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Excerpts of major U.S. legislation pertaining to immigration deportation policy
  • Appendix B: Aliens removed or returned, fiscal years 1892 to 2008.

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