{"product_id":"deportation-nation-daniel-kanstroom-9780674046221","title":"Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeportation Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and Sedition Laws, the Fugitive Slave laws, the Indian \"removals,\" the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Palmer Raids, the internment of the Japanese Americans--all sought to remove those whose origins suggested they could never become \"true\" Americans. And for more than a century, millions of Mexicans have conveniently served as cheap labor, crossing a border that was not official until the early twentieth century and being sent back across it when they became a burden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Daniel Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Kanstroom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674046226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674046221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Daniel Kanstroom","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925548695807,"sku":"9780674046221","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_06c1c4c6-c06c-43ce-92b8-938d29a9c5c0.jpg?v=1681077927","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deportation-nation-daniel-kanstroom-9780674046221","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}