Impossible Subjects
Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
Recommended by Ana Minian, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #22 in Citizenship, Ranked #71 in Immigration
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, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction,... more
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Ana Minian Ngai explores the origins of the concept of the ‘illegal alien’ in the United States. (Source)
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