Deportation nation : outsiders in American history
Daniel Kanstroom (Creator)
This book is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants’ lives and is being used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world.
Print Book, English, 2010
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010
History
340 p.
9780674024724, 9780674046221, 0674024729, 0674046226
1040550038
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