Mae Ngai’s Impossible Subjects, a sociological and legal history, traces the evolution of the “illegal alien’s” position in early 20th century American life. She focuses on the period between the imposition of national origin quotas in and their penultimate reform by the Hart-Celler Act of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition / Mae M. Ngai. Author/Creator: Ngai, Mae M. author. Publication: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [] Format/Description: Book. 1 online resource: 14 halftones. 3 line illustrations 6 tables. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Impossible.
Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern bltadwin.ruton, NJ: Princeton UP, Print. Enduring cultural symbols, such as the statue of liberty or the golden door, belie a much darker reality of racism and exclusion that undergird the record of US immigration policy. It is precisely this disconnect that contemporary historian Mae Ngai has sought to document. Impossible Subjects examines the largely neglected decades between the passage of the restrictive Immigration Act of and the more liberal Immigration Act of But it goes far beyond just filling a gap in existing scholarship. In this book, Mae M. Ngai contends that twentieth-century American immigration law and policy created illegal aliens and then racialized them in a manner that. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai Review by: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas American Journal of Sociology, Vol. , No. 5 (March ), pp. Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http.
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Impossible. ―Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University, author of Barbarian Virtues: the United states Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, "In Impossible Subjects' Mae Ngai has written a stunning history of U.S. immigration policy and practice in that often forgotten period, Employing rich archival evidence and case studies, Ngai marvelously shows how immigration law was used as a tool to fashion American racial policy particularly toward Asians and Mexicans though the. 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 s—its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential.
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