{"product_id":"deportation-nation-outsiders-in-american-history-9780674024724","title":"Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History","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.  We are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want  and what do we do with those that we dont? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times.  Deportation Nation 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.  By 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":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279539888181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674024729","price":42.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674024724.jpg?v=1780601696","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/deportation-nation-outsiders-in-american-history-9780674024724","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}