The Ins on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the Us-Mexico Border, 1917-1954

ISBN-13: 9780190055554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 296 str.

S. Deborah Kang

Recenzje

The genius of Deborah Kang's The INS on the Line is that it shows in painstaking detail how very little Trump's simplistic fantasy has to do with the actual history of the US-Mexico border. Kang offers us a highly original account of state regulation...of the border between 1917 and 1954. She shows how the US-Mexico border emerged as a complex and extended negotiation between the forces of nativism and the concerns and interests of border communities; between the US and Mexico; between 'law on the books' as established in Washington, DC, and 'law in action' in California, Texas, and Arizona; and among the multiple agendas of legislatures, agencies, courts, border residents, employers, and migrants.

O autorze

S. Deborah Kang is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos.