Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition

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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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Ngai, Mae M.
  • ISBN: 9780691160825
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.20 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 416
  • Publication Year: 2014
Language: English

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