Threat of dissent : a history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States / Julia Rose Kraut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraut, Julia Rose, 1981- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Organization)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law--United States--History.

Emigration and immigration law.

Deportation--United States--History.

Deportation.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.

Summary:

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Sovereignty and Self-Preservation

2. War on Anarchy

3. Making Democracy Safe in America

4. Denaturalization, Detention, Deportation, and Discretion

5. An Iron Curtain of the West

6. The Return of McCarranism

7. One Door Closes, Another Opens

8. War on Terror

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674246195

9780674246171

0674246179

OCLC:

1157307286