Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America / / Mae M. Ngai
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| Autore: |
Ngai Mae M.
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| Titolo: |
Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America / / Mae M. Ngai
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| Pubblicazione: | Princeton ; ; Oxford : , : Princeton University Press, , [2004] |
| ©2004 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xx, 377 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 342.73083 |
| Soggetto topico: | Noncitizens - United States - History |
| Emigration and immigration law - United States - History | |
| Illegal immigration - United States - History | |
| Citizenship - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-368) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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 website |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Impossible subjects |
| ISBN: | 0-691-12429-9 |
| 1-4008-4362-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248115703316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Politics and society in twentieth-century America.