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Impossible Subjects

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Impossible Subjects

By Mae M. Ngai

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About the book

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...Show more

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9780691160825

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Impossible Subjects

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Paperback

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