Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
Ngai, Mae M.
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780691160825, Publication Date: Tue, April 1, 2014, Type: Paperback ,
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he "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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