Deportation Nation : : Outsiders in American History / / 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 a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |