Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America Book 105)
by Mae M. Ngai
A landmark study of how twentieth-century immigration laws produced the modern concept of the illegal alien and shaped American ideas of race and citizenship.
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Impossible Subjects examines the legal construction of illegal immigration in the United States.
The book traces how immigration policy created categories of racial and national exclusion.
It analyzes the impact of these policies on Asian and Latino communities throughout the twentieth century.
The updated edition includes a new preface addressing contemporary immigration debates.
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