Impossible subjects
Subtitle: illegal aliens and the making of modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai.
Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780691074719; 9780691124292
Subjects: Illegal aliens -- United States -- History; Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History; Citizenship -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index.
Table of contents: title: Illegal aliens : a problem of law and history; title: The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law; title: Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens; title: From Colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire; title: Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class; title: The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases; title: The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases; title: The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy.