Deportation Nation : : Outsiders in American History / / Daniel Kanstroom.

• VerfasserIn: Kanstroom, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Antecedents --; 3 From Chinese Exclusion to Post-Entry Social Control: The Early Formation of the Modern Deportation System --; 4 The Second Wave: Expansion and Refinement of Modern Deportation Law --; 5 The Third Wave: 1930–1964 --; 6 Discretion, Jurisdiction Stripping, and Retroactivity, 1965–2006 --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674056565
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674056565?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel Kanstroom.

The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees.We are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times.Deportation Nation is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and Sedition Laws, the Fugitive Slave laws, the Indian "removals," the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Palmer Raids, the internment of the Japanese Americans--all sought to remove those whose origins suggested they could never become "true" Americans. And for more than a century, millions of Mexicans have conveniently served as cheap labor, crossing a border that was not official until the early twentieth century and being sent back across it when they became a burden.By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Daniel Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world.