Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America / Mae M. Ngai.

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: 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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