Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America / Mae M. Ngai.
2004
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Author
Title
Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America / Mae M. Ngai.
Published
Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Call Number
KF4800 .N485 2004
ISBN
0691074712 (alk. paper)
Description
xx, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)51726775
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Illegal aliens and the making of modern America
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and Terminology
Introduction: Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History
1
Pt. I
The Regime of Quotas and Papers
15
1
The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law
21
2
Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens
56
Pt. II
Migrants at the Margins of Law and Nation
91
3
From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration in the Invisible Empire
96
4
Braceros, "Wetbacks," and the National Boundaries of Class
127
Pt. III
War, Nationalism, and Alien Citizenship
167
5
The World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and the Citizenship Renunciation Cases
175
6
The Cold War Chinese Immigration Crisis and the Confession Cases
202
Pt. IV
Pluralism and Nationalism in Post-World War II Immigration Reform
225
7
The Liberal Critique and Reform of Immigration Policy
227
Epilogue
265
Appendix
271
Notes
275
Archival and Other Primary Sources
357
Index
369