National insecurities : immigrants and U.S. deportation policy since 1882 / Deirdre M. Moloney.

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Main Author: Moloney, Deirdre M.
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Unauthorized immigration > Government policy > United States > History.
Deportation > United States > History.
Noncitizens > Government policy > United States > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
Physical Description:x, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Women, sexuality, and economic dependency in early U.S. deportation policy
  • Interrogating sexuality in Europe, urban America, and along the Mexican border
  • Gender, dependency, and the likely to become a public charge provision
  • Loathsome or contagious : immigrant bodies, disease, and Eugenics and the borders
  • Clash of civilizations : whiteness, orientalism, and the limits of religious tolerance at the borders
  • Deportation based on politics, labor, and ideology
  • Immigrants' rights as human rights
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Excerpts of major U.S. legislation pertaining to immigration deportation policy
  • Appendix B: Aliens removed or returned, fiscal years 1892 to 2008
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.