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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Weil is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is author of numerous books, including How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789. Klappentext Patrick Weil is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is author of numerous books! including How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789. Zusammenfassung Present-day Americans may feel secure in their citizenship! but there was a time when citizens could be denationalized. Patrick Weil examines the twentieth-century legal procedures! causes! and enforcement of denaturalization to illuminate an important and neglected dimension of American citizenship! sovereignty! and federal authority. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 PART I. The Federalization of Naturalization Chapter 1. Denaturalization, the Main Instrument of Federal Power Chapter 2. The Installment of the Bureau of Naturalization, 1909-1926 Chapter 3. The Victory of the Federalization of Naturalization, 1926?40 PART II. A Conditional Citizenship Chapter 4. The First Political Denaturalization: Emma Goldman Chapter 5. Radicals and Asians Chapter 6. In the Largest Numbers: The Penalty of Living Abroad Chapter 7. The Proactive Denaturalization Program During World War II PART III. War in the Supreme Court Chapter 8.Schneiderman: A Republican Leader Defends a Communist Chapter 9. Baumgartner: The Program Ends, but Denaturalizationn Continues Chapter 10. A Frozen Interlude in the Cold War Chapter 11. Nishikawa, Perez, Trop: "The Most Important Constitutional Pronouncements of This Century" Chapter 12. American Citizenship Is Secured: "May Perez Rest in Peace!" Conclusion Appendix 1. Emma Goldman, "A Woman Without a Country" From Mother Earth (1909) From Free Vistas (1933) Appendix 2. Chiefs of the Naturalization Bureau and Evolution of Departmental Responsibilities Appendix 3. Naturalization Cancellations in the United States, 1907?73 Appendix 4. Americans Expatriated, by Grounds and Year, 1945?77 Appendix 5. Supreme Court and Other Important Court Decisions Related to Denaturalization and Nonvoluntary Expatriation from Schneiderman and Participating Supreme Court Justices Notes Archival Sources and Interviews Index Acknowledgments ...
