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Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America / Mae M. Ngai.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: KF4800 .N485 2004

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    "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."--Jacket.
    Series
    Politics and society in twentieth-century America
    Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Ngai, Mae M.
    Published
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]
    ©2004
    Locale
    United States
    États-Unis
    USA
    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. Regime of quotas and papers
    1. 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. World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases
    6. Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases
    pt. 4. Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform
    7. Liberal critique and reform of immigration policy
    Epilogue
    Appendix
    Notes
    Archival and other primary sources
    Index.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-368) and index.
    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. Regime of quotas and papers -- 1. 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. World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases -- 6. Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases -- pt. 4. Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform -- 7. Liberal critique and reform of immigration policy -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Archival and other primary sources -- Index.
    Award: Frederick Jackson Turner Award, 2005.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    0691074712
    9780691074719
    0691124299
    9780691124292
    Physical Description
    xx, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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