Impossible Subjects : : Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition / / Mae M. Ngai.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Ngai, Mae M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ngai, Mae M.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Updated edition with a New Foreword
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 105
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 14 halftones. 3 line illus. 6 tables.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Figures and Illustrations --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Language and Terminology --; Foreword to the New Paperback Edition --; Introduction. Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History --; PART I: THE REGIME OF QUOTAS AND PAPERS --; One. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law --; Two Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens --; PART II: MIGRANTS AT THE MARGINS OF LAW AND NATION --; Three. From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration in the Invisible Empire --; Four. Braceros, "Wetbacks," and the National Boundaries of Class --; PART III: WAR, NATIONALISM, AND ALIEN CITIZENSHIP --; Five. The World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and the Citizenship Renunciation Cases --; Six The Cold War Chinese Immigration Crisis and the Confession Cases --; PART IV: PLURALISM AND NATIONALISM IN POST-WORLD WAR II IMMIGRATION REFORM --; Seven. The Liberal Critique and Reform of Immigration Policy --; Epilogue --; Appendix --; Notes --; Archival and Other Primary Sources --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400850235; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400850235
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mae M. Ngai.

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy-a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s-its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical "as, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.