Defining America through immigration policy / Bill Ong Hing ; foreword by Anthony D. Romero.
Series: Mapping racismsPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.Description: xi, 324 p. ; 26 cmISBN:- 1592132324 (alk. paper)
- 1592132332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 325.73 21
- JV6483 .H56 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-316) and index.
PART I. DEFINING AMERICA : 1. The Western European New World and The New Americans -- 2. The Undesirable Asian -- 3. "Translate This": The 1917 Literacy Law -- 4. The Xenophobic 1920s. PART II. REDEFINING AMERICA : 5. The 1952 Act: Excluding Communists, Homosexuals, and Other Undesirables -- 6. 1965 to 1990: From Discriminatory Quotas to Discriminatory Diversity Visas. PART III. DEFINING MEXICANS AS NON-AMERICANS : 7. Politicizing the Southwest Border -- 8. Patrolling the Border and Sweeping for Mexicans -- 9. Irca: Penalizing Employers, as Amnesty Barely Survives -- 10. The Dark Side of Modern-Day Enforcement: Operation Gatekeeper. PART IV. DEPORTING AND BARRING NON-AMERICANS : 11. Removal -- 12. The Politics of Asylum. Epilogue: Two Americas.