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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.