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Making Foreigners

Making Foreigners

Parker, Kunal M.

Paperback

Series: New Histories of American Law

General LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1107698510
ISBN13: 9781107698512
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 31 2015
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
This book reconceptualizes the history of U.S. immigration and citizenship law from the colonial period to the beginning of the twenty-first century by joining the histories of immigrants to those of Native Americans, African Americans, women, Asian Americans, Latino/a Americans, and the poor. Kunal Parker argues that during the earliest stages of American history, being legally constructed as a foreigner, along with being subjected to restrictions on presence and movement, was not confined to those who sought to enter the country from the outside, but was also used against those on the inside. Insiders thus shared important legal disabilities with outsiders. It is only over the course of four centuries, with the spread of formal and substantive citizenship among the domestic population, a hardening distinction between citizen and alien, and the rise of a powerful centralized state, that the uniquely disabled legal subject we recognize today as the immigrant has emerged. The book advances new ways of understanding the relationship between foreignness and subordination over the long span of American history.

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