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 | #230036 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2005-08-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .97 x6.18 x8.96l,1.24 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand how we got ...|By Old hoosier|This book betrays its origin as a doctoral dissertation with its slightly ponderous introduction establishing the historiography of the subject and occasional attention to theory. So it lacks the literary sparkle of Ngai's second book, The Lucky Ones. Nevertheless, this is a fascinating book ab| || Winner of the 2005 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association| || Winner of the 2005 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians| || Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstandin

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, administr...

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