Impossible Subjects Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America 2nd Edition by Mae Ngai ISBN 0691160821 978-0691160825
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ISBN 10: 0691160821
ISBN 13: 978-0691160825
Author: Mae M. Ngai
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 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.
Table of contents:
PART I. THE REGIME OF QUOTAS AND PAPERS
Introduction
Chapter One
The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law
Chapter Two
Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens
PART II. MIGRANTS AT THE MARGINS OF LAW AND NATION
Introduction
Chapter Three
From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration in the Invisible Empire
Chapter Four
Braceros, “Wetbacks,” and the National Boundaries of Class
PART III. WAR, NATIONALISM, AND ALIEN CITIZENSHIP
Introduction
Chapter Five
The World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and the Citizenship Renunciation Cases
Chapter Six
The Cold War Chinese Immigration Crisis and the Confession Cases
PART IV. PLURALISM AND NATIONALISM IN POST–WORLD WAR II IMMIGRATION REFORM
Chapter Seven
The Liberal Critique and Reform of Immigration Policy
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