Making Foreigners - Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000

This book connects the history of immigration with histories of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the poor, Latino/a Americans and Asian Americans.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Foreigners and borders in British North America; 3. Logics of revolution; 4. Blacks, Indians, and other aliens in antebellum America; 5. The rise of the federal immigration order; 6. Closing the gates in the early twentieth century; 7. A rights revolution?; 8. Conclusion and coda.

About the author

Kunal Parker is a Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami School of Law. His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900: Legal Thought before Modernism was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

Summary

This book will interest the reader who wants to learn about the history of immigration and citizenship law. Covering the span of American history (1600–2000), it connects the history of immigrants with that of domestic subordinated groups and reveals the changing legal meanings of foreignness over the course of American history.

Product details

• Authors: Kunal M. Parker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107030213
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03021-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: New Histories of American Law; New Histories of American Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; USA, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, c 1500 onwards to present day, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law