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Deportation nation : outsiders in American history /

"Deportation Nation is a history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. It aims to answer two fundamental questions: how should we understand deportation and what are the antecedents of our current deportation system?" "Daniel Kanstroom argues that deportation has always b...

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Main Author: Kanstroom, Dan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Antecedents
  • From Chinese exclusion to post-entry social control: the early formation of the modern deportation system
  • The second wave: expansion and refinement of modern deportation law
  • The third wave: 1930-1964
  • Discretion, jurisdiction stripping, and retroactivity, 1965-2006.