{"product_id":"impossible-subjects-illegal-aliens-and-the-making-of-modern-america-updated-edition-politics-and-society-in-modern-america-0691160821-used","title":"Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0691160821\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ngai, Mae M.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338392596768,"sku":"USED0691160821","price":27.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81ubWN3YtQL.jpg?v=1789096201","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/impossible-subjects-illegal-aliens-and-the-making-of-modern-america-updated-edition-politics-and-society-in-modern-america-0691160821-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}