MARC Record from Western Washington University

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008 030214s2004 njua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0691074712 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aKF4800$b.N485 2004
100 1 $aNgai, Mae M.
245 10 $aImpossible subjects :$billegal aliens and the making of modern America /$cMae M. Ngai.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2004.
300 $axx, 377 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index.
505 0 $aIllegal aliens : a problem of law and history -- The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law -- Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens -- From Colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire -- Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class -- The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases -- The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases -- The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy.
650 0 $aIllegal aliens$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration law$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aCitizenship$zUnited States$xHistory.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin051/2003044486.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin051/2003044486.html
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d8y2-aa
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