| Edition |
New paperback edition / with a new forward by the author. |
| Description |
xxx, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Politics and society in twentieth-century America |
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Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-368) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s--its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial differences and by emphasizing as never before the nation's continguous land borders and their patrols |
| Subject |
Undocumented Immigrants. (DNLM)D000069756
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Noncitizens. (OCoLC)fst00967153
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Noncitizens -- United States -- History.
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Citizenship -- United States -- History.
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Emigration and immigration law. (OCoLC)fst00908736
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Citizenship. (OCoLC)fst00861909
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Illegal immigration -- United States -- History.
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Local Subject |
Undocumented immigration -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0691160821 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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9780691160825 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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