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Laws Harsh as Tigers

Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law

By: Lucy E. Salyer

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Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807845302

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Under the Starry Flag

How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship

By: Lucy E. Salyer

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How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship

By: Lucy E. Salyer

Winner of the Myrna F. Bernath Book Award “A stunning accomplishment...As the Trump administration works to expatriate naturalized U.S. citizens, understanding the history of individual rights and state power at the heart of Under the Starry Flag could not be more important.” —Passport “A brilliant piece of historical writing as well as a real page-turner. Salyer seamlessly integrates analysis of big, complicated historical questions—allegiance, naturalization, citizenship, politics, diplomacy, race, and gender—into a gripping narrative.” —Kevin Kenny, author of The American Irish In 1867 forty Irish American freedom fighters, outfitted with guns and ammunition, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. They were arrested for treason as soon as they landed. The Fenians, as they were called, claimed to be American citizens, but British authorities insisted that they remained British subjects. Following the Civil War, the Fenian crisis dramatized the question of whether citizenship should be considered an inalienable right. This gripping legal saga, a prelude to today’s immigration battles, raises important questions about immigration, citizenship, and who deserves to be protected by the law.

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Harvard University Press

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0674989228

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Laws Harsh As Tigers

Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law

By: Lucy E. Salyer

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Laws Harsh As Tigers

Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law

By: Lucy E. Salyer

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials, and the lower federal courts that took place around the turn of the century established fundamental principles that continue to dominate immigration law today and make it unique among branches of American law. By establishing the centrality of the Chinese to immigration policy, Salyer also integrates the history of Asian immigrants on the West Coast with that of European immigrants in the East. Salyer demonstrates that Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans mounted sophisticated and often-successful legal challenges to the enforcement of exclusionary immigration policies. Ironically, their persistent litigation contributed to the development of legal doctrines that gave the Bureau of Immigration increasing power to counteract resistance. Indeed, by 1924, immigration law had begun to diverge from constitutional norms, and the Bureau of Immigration had emerged as an exceptionally powerful organization, free from many of the constraints imposed upon other government agencies.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807864315

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Under the Starry Flag

How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship

By: Lucy E. Salyer

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How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship

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Belknap Press

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Laws Harsh as Tigers

Laws Harsh as Tigers

Under the Starry Flag

Under the Starry Flag

Laws Harsh As Tigers

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Under the Starry Flag

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