| Description |
1 online resource (159 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contemporary Assimilation in the United States -- Assimilation = Economic Attainment -- Assimilation Norms and the Nation-State -- Assessing the Context of Reception: Assimilation and Backlash -- Conclusion I: Assimilation Norms Are Coercive -- Conclusion II: Post-national Citizenship -- 2 Enemy Invaders! Mexican Immigrants and U.S. Wars Against Them -- Bare Life and Prerogative Power: The Status of Mexican Immigrants Today -- Sovereign Concerns and the Immigrant Work Ethic |
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Production and Reproduction -- Race -- Conclusion -- 3 Anti-Immigration Groups and Civil Society: Pathway to Democracy or Support for Prerogative Power? -- Sovereignty and Grassroots Anti-immigration Groups -- Civil Society, "Lynching," and Democracy -- Conclusion: Democracy in America? -- 4 Homo Laborans, Statelessness, and Terror: Economic Deregulation and the Strengthening of Sovereignty -- The U.S. Guest-Worker Program -- The Border Industrial Program -- Consent? The Hobbesian Employment Contract -- The Rhetoric of Necessity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: The Right to Rights? -- Human Rights |
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Post-national Citizenship -- Hybridity? -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
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Emigration and immigration.
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Immigrants -- Civil rights.
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Immigrants -- Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271068213 |
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0271068213 |
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