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Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000 (New Histories of American Law)

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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 throughout the earliest stages of American history, being legally constructed as a foreigner, along side being subjected to restrictions on presence and movement, used to be not confined to those that sought to go into the country from the outdoor, but used to be also used against those on the inside. Insiders thus shared important legal disabilities with outsiders. It is just over the course of four centuries, with the spread of formal and substantive citizenship a few of the domestic population, a hardening distinction between citizen and alien, and the upward push of a powerful centralized state, that the uniquely disabled legal subject we recognize nowadays 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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