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" Immigration and the politics of American sovereignty, 1890-1990 / "
Cheryl Shanks
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BL
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706684
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b528873
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| Main Entry
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Shanks, Cheryl,1962-
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Immigration and the politics of American sovereignty, 1890-1990 /\ Cheryl Shanks
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, [2001]
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, ©2001
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390 pages :: illustrations, map ;; 24 cm
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047211204X
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: 9780472112043
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-377) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Arguments about immigrants -- Whether to exclude -- Whom to exclude : the Quota Acts -- Whom to exclude : the McCarran-Walter Act -- Whom to exclude, whom to prefer : the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 -- Whom to exclude, whom to prefer : IRCA and the 1990 reforms -- Domestic interests as explanations -- Structural theories as explanations -- Conclusion: sovereignty, things, and people
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"Immigration and the Politics of American Sovereignty traces how and why public arguments about immigrants changed over time, how some arguments came to predominate and shape policy, and what impact these arguments have had on how the United States defines and defends its sovereignty. Over the past century, the U.S. Congress argued first that prospective citizens should be judged in terms of race, then in terms of politics, then of wealth and skills. Each argument arose in direct response to a perceived foreign threat - a threat that, in the government's eyes, was racial, political, ideological, or economic."--Jacket
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Emigration and immigration law-- United States-- History
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United States, Emigration and immigration, Government policy
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325.73/09/04
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JV6483.S536 2002
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