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Impossible Subjects Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Paperback • 2005 • English • 4. edition

Impossible Subjects Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

By Mae M. Ngai

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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 o...Show more

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ISBN

9780691124292

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

4

Original title

Impossible Subjects Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Format

Paperback

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