Politics and Society in Modern America Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition, Book 105, (Paperback)

from Scapegoats

Excellent work examining immigration law and how it shapes and is shaped by American national self-image. She starts with attempts to limit immigration of non-whites through census manipulation, before examining specific reactions to substantial Mexican and Filipino immigration. Ngai effectively ...

from rivkat

The various ways in which the law constructed and racialized “illegality” over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A telling example: in the mid-twentieth century, noncitizens who'd committed minor crimes but had lived in the US for decades could sometimes get relief from d...

from DarthDeverell

In Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Maw M. Ngai “argues that illegal immigration is not anomalous but inherent to the regime of immigration restriction. Nor is it a side channel to the main stream of the nation's history as a ‘nation of immigrants'” (pg. xxiv)...

from mariposabooks

Insightful historical perspective on the issues of migration, politics, and second-class citizenship status. A must read for anyone seeking to understand immigration laws, policies, and the reasons for hostility towards migrants.

from DarthDeverell

In Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Maw M. Ngai “argues that illegal immigration is not anomalous but inherent to the regime of immigration restriction. Nor is it a side channel to the main stream of the nation's history as a ‘nation of immigrants'” (pg. xxiv)...