National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy Since 1882

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For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical context. Focusing on several ethnic groups, Moloney closely examines how gender and race led to differences in the implementation of U.S. immigration policy as well as how poverty, sexuality, health, and ideologies were regulated at the borders. Emphasizing the perspectives of immigrants and their advocates, Moloney weaves in details from case files that illustrate the impact policy decisions had on individual lives. She explores the role of immigration policy in diplomatic relations between the U.S. and other nations, and shows how federal, state, and local agencies had often conflicting priorities and approaches to immigration control. Throughout, Moloney traces the ways that these policy debates contributed to a modern understanding of citizenship and human rights in the twentieth century and even today. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 CHAPTER 1. Women, Sexuality, and Economic Dependency in Early U.S. Deportation Policy......Page 41 CHAPTER 2. Differential Regulation: Interrogating Sexuality in Europe, in Urban America, and along the Mexican Border......Page 64 CHAPTER 3. Gender, Dependency, and the Likely to Become a Public Charge Provision......Page 92 CHAPTER 4. Loathsome or Contagious: Immigrant Bodies, Disease, and Eugenics and the Borders......Page 118 CHAPTER 5. Clash of Civilizations: Whiteness, Orientalism, and the Limits of Religious Tolerance at the Borders......Page 147 CHAPTER 6. Deportation Based on Politics, Labor, and Ideology......Page 176 CHAPTER 7. Immigrants’ Rights as Human Rights......Page 211 Conclusion......Page 244 APPENDIX A: Excerpts of Major U.S. Legislation Pertaining to Immigration Deportation Policy......Page 252 APPENDIX B: Aliens Removed or Returned, Fiscal Years 1892 to 2008......Page 277 Notes......Page 280 Bibliography......Page 308 C......Page 324 H......Page 325 M......Page 326 R......Page 327 Z......Page 328