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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Kanstroom is Professor and Director of the Human Rights Program at Boston College Law School. Klappentext The danger of deportation hangs over the head of every non-citizen in the United States. This title presents the history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. It shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world. Zusammenfassung This book is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants’ lives and is being used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction 2. Antecedents Part 1: English Roots! Colonial Controls! and Criminal Transportation Part 2: The Alien and Sedition Acts-A "First Experiment" with Ideological Post-Entry Social Control Deportation Part 3: Indian Removal! African-American Exclusion! Fugitive Slave Laws! and "Colonization" 3. From Chinese Exclusion to Post-Entry Social Control: The Early Formation of the Modern Deportation System 4. The Second Wave: Expansion and Refinement of Modern Deportation Law 5. The Third Wave: The "War on Crime!" Internment! Political Deportations! and Mass Mexican Removals! 1930-1964 6. Modern Problems of Deportation Law: Discretion! Jurisdiction Stripping! and Retroactivity! 1965-2005
