Impossible Subjects : Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition Paperback / softback
by Mae M. Ngai
Part of the Politics and Society in Modern America series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages, 14 halftones. 3 line illus. 6 tables.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:27/04/2014
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- ISBN:9780691160825
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages, 14 halftones. 3 line illus. 6 tables.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:27/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780691160825
