Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America
"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 twe...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Princeton (N.J.) :
Princeton University Press
2014.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Impossible subjects, illegal aliens and the making of modern America, Mae M. Ngai, [New paperback edition, 2014, Princeton (N.J.), Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (XXX-377 p.), Politics and society in twentieth-century America, 978-0-691-16082-5 |
| 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 |
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| Bibliografi: | Bibliogr. p. [357]-368. Notes bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781400850235 |
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