| Description |
xx, 377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index. |
| Contents |
List of figures and illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on language and terminology -- Introduction : Illegal aliens : a problem of law and history -- The regime of quotas and papers -- The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law -- Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens -- Migrants at the margins of law and nation -- From Colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire -- Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class -- War, nationalism, and alien citizenship -- The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases -- The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases -- Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform -- The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Archival and other primary sources -- Index. |
| Subject |
Noncitizens -- United States -- History.
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History.
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Citizenship -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0691124299 (pbk.) |
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9780691124292 (pbk.) |
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0691074712 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780691074719 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA3U2758 |
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NLGGC 269679006 |
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YDXCP 2222391 |
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YDXCP 1992869 |
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NZ1 7497440 |
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AU@ 000024452279 |
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