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.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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