Deportation : : The Origins of U.S. Policy / / Torrie Hester.
Before 1882, the U.S. federal government had never formally deported anyone, but that year an act of Congress made Chinese workers the first group of immigrants eligible for deportation. Over the next forty years, lawmakers and judges expanded deportable categories to include prostitutes, anarchists...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Creating U.S. Deportation Policy
- Chapter 2. The International Regime
- Chapter 3. Deportation and Citizenship Status
- Chapter 4. From Protection to Punishment
- Chapter 5. The Limits of Deportation Power
- Chapter 6. From Racial to Economic Grounds
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments