03112nam 2200589 450 99624811570331620211206165123.00-691-12429-91-4008-4362-6(CKB)2550000001095143(dli)HEB06691(SSID)ssj0000333306(PQKBManifestationID)11256996(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333306(PQKBWorkID)10335864(PQKB)10435776(MiAaPQ)EBC1218571(EXLCZ)99255000000109514320181002d2004 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImpossible subjects illegal aliens and the making of modern America /Mae M. NgaiPrinceton ;Oxford :Princeton University Press,[2004]©20041 online resource (xx, 377 pages)illustrationsPolitics and Society in Twentieth-Century AmericaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliographical references (pages [357]-368) and index.Introduction: Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History -- Part I: The Regime of Quotas and Papers -- Part II: Migrants at the Margins of Law and Nation -- Part III: War, Nationalism, and Alien Citizenship -- Part IV: Pluralism and Nationalism in Post-World War II Immigration Reform -- Epilogue"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 1920's—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."-from publisher websitePolitics and society in twentieth-century America.NoncitizensUnited StatesHistoryEmigration and immigration lawUnited StatesHistoryIllegal immigrationUnited StatesHistoryCitizenshipUnited StatesHistoryNoncitizensHistory.Emigration and immigration lawHistory.Illegal immigrationHistory.CitizenshipHistory.342.73083Ngai Mae M.1014828American Council of Learned Societies.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248115703316Impossible subjects2366706UNISA