Bootlegged Aliens : : Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border / / Ashley Johnson Bavery.

In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson Bavery considers the North as a borderlands region, demonstrating how this often-overlooked border influenced government policies toward illegal immigrati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 10 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "Illegal Immigrants" in an Industrial Borderland
  • Chapter 2. Defining Undesirables and Protesting Quotas
  • Chapter 3. The Problem of Canadian Day Laborers
  • Chapter 4. Reform, Repatriation, and Deportation During the Depression
  • Chapter 5. Registering Immigrants in the Depression Era
  • Chapter 6. The Immigrant Politics of Anticommunism
  • Chapter 7. Aliens and Welfare in North America
  • Conclusion. The Legacy of Restrictive Immigration
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments