Threat of Dissent - A History of Ideological Exclusion Deportation in United States

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.

About the author

Julia Rose Kraut, a lawyer and historian, was the inaugural Judith S. Kaye Fellow for the Historical Society of the New York Courts.

Summary

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Rose Kraut
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780674976061
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97606-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / United States / General, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, immigration law, Migration, immigration & emigration, Legal History, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas