Name: Impossible Subjects

Full name: Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Author: Mae M. Ngai
Year: 2003
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9780691160825
0691160821
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. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
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