{"product_id":"impossible-subjects-illegal-aliens-and-the-making-of-modern-america-updated-edition-mae-m-ngai-paperback","title":"Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition -- Mae M. Ngai, Paperback","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mae M. Ngai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691160825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMae M. Ngai\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mae M. Ngai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67848225063140,"sku":"9780691160825","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780691160825.jpg?v=1792915116","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/impossible-subjects-illegal-aliens-and-the-making-of-modern-america-updated-edition-mae-m-ngai-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}