You might also like

More about Impossible Subjects

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 69 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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 quotas, 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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Impossible Subjects
• Author: Mae M. Ngai
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780691160825
• ISBN: 0691160821
• ID: 04642005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. April 2014

Trending among others

---

---

---