{"product_id":"impossible-subjects-mae-m-ngai-9780691160825","title":"Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition","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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691160821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691160825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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","brand":"Mae M. Ngai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045995311359,"sku":"9780691160825","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96c8edcb-d698-42a7-91da-fb4b897170d1.jpg?v=1684982005","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impossible-subjects-mae-m-ngai-9780691160825","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}