Threat of Dissent : : A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States / / Julia Rose Kraut.

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
1. Sovereignty and Self-Preservation --
2. War on Anarchy --
3. Making Democracy Safe in America --
4. Denaturalization, Detention, Deportation, and Discretion --
5. An Iron Curtain of the West --
6. The Return of McCarranism --
7. One Door Closes, Another Opens --
8. War on Terror --
Conclusion --
Abbreviations --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Index
Summary:From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674246195
9783110690057
DOI:10.4159/9780674246195
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Julia Rose Kraut.