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Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ngai, Mae M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
Illegal aliens > United States > History.
Emigration and immigration law > United States > History.
Citizenship > United States > History.
Immigranten.
Illegale buitenlanders.
Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis > Histoire.
Émigration et immigration > Droit > États-Unis > Histoire.
Nationalité > États-Unis > Histoire.
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures and illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on language and terminology
  • Introduction : Illegal aliens : a problem of law and history
  • pt. 1. The regime of quotas and papers
  • 1. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law
  • 2. Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens
  • pt. 2. Migrants at the margins of law and nation
  • 3. From Colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire
  • 4. Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class
  • pt. 3. War, nationalism, and alien citizenship
  • 5. The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases
  • 6. The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases
  • pt. 4. Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform
  • 7. The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Archival and other primary sources
  • Index.