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DEPORTATION NATION
OUTSIDERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY |
| By: |
Daniel Kanstroom |
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Paperback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674046226 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674046221 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2010 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
The danger of deportation hangs over the head of every non-citizen in the United States. This title presents the history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. It shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world. |
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The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every non-citizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees. We are a nation of immigrants - but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times. "Deportation Nation" is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and Sedition Laws, the Fugitive Slave laws, the Indian 'removals', the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Palmer Raids, the internment of the Japanese Americans - all sought to remove those whose origins suggested they could never become 'true' Americans. And for more than a century, millions of Mexicans have conveniently served as cheap labor, crossing a border that was not official until the early twentieth century and being sent back across it when they became a burden.By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Daniel Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world. |
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US |
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Harvard University Press |
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