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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459301403321

Autore

Shanks Cheryl <1962->

Titolo

Immigration and the politics of American sovereignty, 1890-1990 [[electronic resource] /] / Cheryl Shanks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : The University of Michigan Press, c2001

ISBN

1-282-42306-1

9786612423062

0-472-02300-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

325.73/09/04

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration law - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-377) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Arguments about immigrants -- Whether to exclude -- Whom to exclude : the Quota Acts -- Whom to exclude : the McCarran-Walter Act -- Whom to exclude, whom to prefer : the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 -- Whom to exclude, whom to prefer : IRCA and the 1990 reforms -- Domestic interests as explanations -- Structural theories as explanations -- Conclusion: sovereignty, things, and people.