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  title info:
    title: Disparate regimes
    sub title: nativist politics, alienage law, and citizenship rights in the United States, 1865-1965
  name:
    name part: Shanahan, Brendan A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "Historians have well described how US immigration policy increasingly fell under the purview of federal law and national politics in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It is far less understood that the rights of noncitizen immigrants in the country remained primarily contested in the realms of state politics and law until the mid-to-late twentieth century. Such state-level political debates often centered on whether noncitizen immigrants should vote, count as part of the polity for the purposes of state legislative representation, work in public and publicly funded employment, or obtain professional licensure. Enacted state alienage laws were rarely self-executing, and immigrants and their allies regularly challenged nativist restrictions in court, on the job, by appealing to lawmakers and the public, and even via diplomacy. Battles over the passage, implementation, and constitutionality of such policies at times aligned with and sometimes clashed against contemporaneous efforts to expand rights to marginalized Americans, particularly US-born women. Often considered separately or treated as topics of marginal importance, Disparate Regimes underscores the centrality of nativist state politics and alienage policies to the history of American immigration and citizenship from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It argues that the proliferation of these debates and laws produced veritable disparate regimes of citizenship rights in the American political economy on a state-by-state basis. It further illustrates how nativist state politics and alienage policies helped to invent and concretize the idea that citizenship rights meant citizen-only rights in law, practice, and popular perception in the United States"--
  table of contents: Introduction: Citizenship rights as citizen-only rights in American history -- Creating disparate regimes in the polity : noncitizens, political rights, and nineteenth-century state constitutional politics -- Disputing disparate regimes in employment : blue-collar nativist state hiring laws in the late Gilded Age and Progressive Era -- Making voters citizens : repealing alien suffrage via state constitutional amendment campaigns, 1894-1926 -- Who counts in the polity? : noncitizens, apportionment, and representation in the early-to-mid twentieth century -- Learning citizenship matters : immigrant professionals and state anti-alien hiring and licensure laws, 1917-52 -- Embedding American citizenship and citizenship rights : marital repatriation law from the women's suffrage movement to the Cold War -- Conclusion: A "lost century," a reboot, or an uninterrupted struggle? : citizenship rights as citizen-only rights.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Brendan A. Shanahan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
    topic: States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: United States
    topic: States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Citizenship
    geographic: United States
    topic: States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Nativism
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration law
    geographic: United States
    topic: States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mouvements nativistes
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: Modern
  subject:
    topic: Americas (North
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JV6483 .S534 2025
  classification: 323.60973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Disparate regimes
    name:
      name part: Shanahan, Brendan A.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024043876
    identifier: (OCoLC)1479519100
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250108
    record change date: 20260319205531.3
    record identifier: in00005727846
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng