Deportation nation : outsiders in American history
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0674046226
ISBN 13
9780674046221
Category
American Law
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Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Pages
xi, 340 pages
Subject
American General History
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Abstract
"Deportation Nation is a history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. It aims to answer two fundamental questions: how should we understand deportation and what are the antecedents of our current deportation system?" "Daniel Kanstroom argues that deportation has always been a way not only to manage immigration but also to control noncitizens' lives. It has become a crude and inefficient legal tool in ill-defined "wars" on terror and crime. Deportation Nation illuminates shadowed corners of American history, and demands more attention to hard problems of immigration, law, and human rights in a globalized but often xenophobic world."--Jacket.
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Content:
Introduction -- Antecedents -- From Chinese exclusion to post-entry social control: the early formation of the modern deportation system -- The second wave: expansion and refinement of modern deportation law -- The third wave: 1930-1964 -- Discretion, jurisdiction stripping, and retroactivity, 1965-2006.
Introduction -- Antecedents -- From Chinese exclusion to post-entry social control: the early formation of the modern deportation system -- The second wave: expansion and refinement of modern deportation law -- The third wave: 1930-1964 -- Discretion, jurisdiction stripping, and retroactivity, 1965-2006.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (249) and index.
Donated by Graham Price.
Donated by Graham Price.
Number of Copies
1
