{"product_id":"deportation-nation-outsiders-in-american-history","title":"Deportation Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeportation Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and Sedition Laws, the Fugitive Slave laws, the Indian \"removals,\" the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Palmer Raids, the internment of the Japanese Americans--all sought to remove those whose origins suggested they could never become \"true\" Americans. And for more than a century, millions of Mexicans have conveniently served as cheap labor, crossing a border that was not official until the early twentieth century and being sent back across it when they became a burden.     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Daniel Kanstroom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54203336294744,"sku":null,"price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/deportation-nation-outsiders-in-american-history","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}