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by Anna O. Law
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anna O. LawPublish date:2026-03-24Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197660096ISBN-10:0197660096UPC:9780197660096Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Public Policy, Civics & Citizenship, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:ImmigrationSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.341Product ID:SCW3FF5649
Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and stay in US territory. But freedom of movement was not guaranteed in the British colonies or early US. By contrast, voluntary migrants were met with strict laws and policies created by colonies and states, which denied free mobility and settlement in their territories to unwanted populations.

Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship presents a story of constitutional development that traces the confluence of the logics of slavery and settler colonialism in early legal rulings and public policy about migration and citizenship. The book examines the division of labor between the national and state governments that endured for over a century, reasons why that arrangement changed in the late nineteenth century, and what the transformation meant for people subject to those regimes of control. Drawing into one study the migration policy histories of groups of people that are usually studied separately, and combining the methodologies of political science, history, and law, Anna O. Law reveals the unmistakable effects of slavery and Native American dispossession in modern US immigration policy.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197660096ISBN-10:0197660096UPC:9780197660096Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Public Policy, Civics & Citizenship, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:ImmigrationSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.341Product ID:SCW3FF5649
Anna O. Law is the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at CUNY Brooklyn College. She completed her PhD in Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications appear in political science, history, and law journals and investigate the interaction between law, legal institutions, and politics. Her first book, The Immigration Battle in American Courts (2010), examined the role of the federal judiciary in U.S. immigration. She teaches and researches in U.S. constitutional law, federal courts, U.S. immigration policy history, federalism, American Political Development, and race/ethnicity.
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