Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Mae M. Ngai
Mae M. Ngai’s Impossible Subjects examines how the category of the “illegal alien” emerged in the United States and became central to modern immigration policy and public life. This updated edition offers a rigorous historical account of the connections among law, politics, society, citizenship, and exclusion.
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Impossible Subjects examines the development of illegal immigration as a political and social category in modern America.
Mae M. Ngai places immigration policy within the broader history of American politics and society.
The book explores how laws and institutions shaped ideas about belonging, citizenship, and exclusion.
This updated edition provides a historically grounded perspective on immigration and the making of modern America.
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