Elusive Citizenship : : Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights /

Elusive Citizenship : : Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights / / John S. W. Park.

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Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Park, John S. W.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Critical America ; 72
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. “A Subclass within Our Boundaries”
  • I. Theory
  • 2. “Characteristics Arbitrary from a Moral Point of View”
  • 3. “One Body in the State of Nature”
  • II. Law
  • 4. “They Do Not and Will Not Assimilate”
  • 5. “Beyond All Reason in Its Severity”
  • III. Homeless Strangers
  • 6. “They Will Disappear”
  • 7. “Loyalty Is a Matter of the Heart and Mind”
  • 8. “Outside the Pale of Law”
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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