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020 $a0691074712 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aNgai, Mae M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003094661
245 10 $aImpossible subjects :$billegal aliens and the making of modern America /$cMae M. Ngai.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axx, 377 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History --$gPt. I.$tThe Regime of Quotas and Papers --$g1.$tThe Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law --$g2.$tDeportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens --$gPt. II.$tMigrants at the Margins of Law and Nation --$g3.$tFrom Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration in the Invisible Empire --$g4.$tBraceros, "Wetbacks," and the National Boundaries of Class --$gPt. III.$tWar, Nationalism, and Alien Citizenship --$g5.$tThe World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and the Citizenship Renunciation Cases --$g6.$tThe Cold War Chinese Immigration Crisis and the Confession Cases --$gPt. IV.$tPluralism and Nationalism in Post-World War II Immigration Reform --$g7.$tThe Liberal Critique and Reform of Immigration Policy.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aNoncitizens$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aIllegal immigration$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration law$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009124861
650 0 $aCitizenship$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009119868
830 0 $aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99253090
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