Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America /

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 twentie...

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Main Author: Ngai, Mae M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014
Edition:Updated edition / with a new forward by the author.
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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