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Impossible subjects

illegal aliens and the making of modern America

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377

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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
2014, Princeton University Press
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
2014, Princeton University Press
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Impossible Subjects Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America
2014, Princeton University Press
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
2013, Princeton University Press
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
August 8, 2005, Princeton University Press
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Impossible subjects: illegal aliens and the making of modern America
2004, Princeton University Press
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November 17, 2003, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

Illegal 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index.

Published in
Princeton, N.J
Series
Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Classifications

Library of Congress
KF4800 .N485 2004, KF4800.N485 2004, KF4800.N485 2005, JV6483 .N49 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 377 p. :
Number of pages
377

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16160463M
ISBN 10
0691074712, 0691124299
ISBN 13
9780691074719, 9780691124292
LCCN
2003044486
OCLC/WorldCat
51726775
Library Thing
347238
Goodreads
612172
70553

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