Impossible Subjects
Subtitle: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780691124292
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Immigration & emigration; 20th century; Sociology; Government - U.S. Government; History; History: American; USA; United States - 20th Century; Constitutional; Emigration & Immigration; American History; History / United States / 20th Century; Law; Political Science and International Relations; Civics & Citizenship
First sentence: THE JOHNSON-REED Immigration Act of 1954 marked both the end of one era, that of open immigration from Europe, and the beginning of a new one, the era of immigration restriction.