| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-242) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: immigrants in America -- Contract and classical immigration law -- Promises, promises -- All persons within the territorial jurisdiction -- Alienage and the ties that bind -- The most tender connections -- The lost story of Americans in waiting -- Transition at a crossroads -- The meaning of transition -- Race, belonging, and transition -- Taking transition seriously -- Conclusion : the idea of Americans in waiting. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
In Americans in Waiting, Motomura discovers in our national past a simple yet powerful approach to immigration and citizenship. Rewriting the conventional story, Motomura uncovers how for over 150 years, many immigrants were immediately put on track to U.S. citizenship. They were entitled to overseas diplomatic protection and eligible to homestead land on the western frontier. Citizens-to-be were even allowed to vote. In sum, immigration was assumed to be a transition to; citizenship, and immigrants were future citizens--Americans in waiting. Once central to law and policy, this view has all but vanished. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the United States began to treat its immigrants in one of two ways: as signatories to a contract that sets the terms of their stay in; this country, or as affiliates who can earn rights only as they become, over time, enmeshed in the nation's life. Immigration is now seen too often as a problem to be solved, rather than a pillar of our nations strength.; A panoramic history of the past 200 years of immigration and citizenship in the United States, Americans in Waiting offers a clear lesson: only by recovering this lost history of immigration can we ensure that both current and future citizens share in the sense of belonging that is crucial to full participation in American life. |
| Subject |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
|
|
Immigrants -- United States.
|
|
Citizenship -- United States.
|
|
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
|
|
Citizenship. (OCoLC)fst00861909
|
|
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst00908700
|
|
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
|
|
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
|
Immigratie.
|
|
United States.
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Motomura, Hiroshi, 1953- Americans in waiting. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0195163451 (DLC) 2005036788 (OCoLC)62741405 |
| ISBN |
9780198036906 (electronic bk.) |
|
0198036906 (electronic bk.) |
|
