Americans in Waiting The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States

Name: Americans in Waiting The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States
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ISBN: 9780195336085

ISBN-10: 0195336089

ISBN-13: 9780195336085

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Authors: Hiroshi Motomura

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Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially being treated as future citizens-Americans in waiting. Challenging current conceptions, the author deftly uncovers how this view, once so central to law and policy, has all but vanished. Motomura explains how America could create a more unified society by recovering this lost history and by giving…

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List price: $41.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 9.13" wide x 6.26" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction: Immigrants in America



Contract and Classical Immigration Law



Promises, Promises



All Persons Within the Territorial Jurisdiction



Alienage and the Ties That Bind



The Most Tender Connections



The Lost Story of Americans in Waiting



Transition at a Crossroads



The Meaning of Transition



Race, Belonging, and Transition



Taking Transition Seriously


Conclusion: The Idea of Americans in Waiting


Notes


Index