During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effec

This 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. imm

Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good

Introduction : the roots and routes of American deportation -- Building the deportation state -- Eastbound -- Westbound.

Présentation de l'éditeur: "Expelling the Poor' argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudic