Deportation Nation
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-04622-1 (ISBN)
The 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.
We 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.
Deportation Nation 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.
By 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.
Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law, Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar, and Director of the International Human Rights Program, Boston College, and an Associate Director of the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice.
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Antecedents Part 1: English Roots, Colonial Controls, and Criminal Transportation Part 2: The Alien and Sedition Acts-A "First Experiment" with Ideological Post-Entry Social Control Deportation Part 3: Indian Removal, African-American Exclusion, Fugitive Slave Laws, and "Colonization" 3. From Chinese Exclusion to Post-Entry Social Control: The Early Formation of the Modern Deportation System 4. The Second Wave: Expansion and Refinement of Modern Deportation Law 5. The Third Wave: The "War on Crime," Internment, Political Deportations, and Mass Mexican Removals, 1930-1964 6. Modern Problems of Deportation Law: Discretion, Jurisdiction Stripping, and Retroactivity, 1965-2005
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.4.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-04622-6 / 0674046226 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-04622-1 / 9780674046221 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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