Radioactive Rabbits and “Illegal Aliens”:

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-42
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Aliens

WHO WE ARE: America Becoming and Becoming American

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Russell Sage Foundation ◽  
Illegal Aliens ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
New Yorkers

Samuel P. Huntington,Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, 448 pages, ISBN: 0-684-86668-4, Cloth, $27.00.Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, eds., Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, 448 pages, ISBN: 0-87154-436-9, Cloth, $39.95.Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, 400 pages, ISBN: 0-691-12429-9, Paper, $19.95, and 0-691-07471-2, Cloth, $49.95.

scholarly journals Legitimizing Evictions in Contemporary Europe and Apartheid South Africa

AmeriQuests ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Thomas Spijkerboer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Illegal Aliens ◽  
Normal Element ◽  
The Right

This paper undertakes to investigate parallels between evictions of irregularized persons in Apartheid South Africa and contemporary Europe. In both cases, people were denied the right to a home (or at least: to the home they were occupying at that moment) because they were considered to be illegal aliens. But how did this situation come about? How did these people become illegal aliens? And while it seems obvious that illegal aliens can be deported from the territory, how did their alien status come to justify the destruction of their homes? Pursuing the association means we will not only identify similarities, but also try to establish where the association meets it limits. The aim of pursuing a visual association across time and space is not primarily to draw exact parallels. In contemporary Europe, the use of violence of a “white” state in order to destroy the housing of “non-whites” is accepted as a normal element in the regulation of “non-white” populations. The association with Apartheid seeks to problematize this normality by pointing to the uneasy pedigree of such practices.

The WPA and the (Short-Lived) Triumph of Nativism

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cybelle Fox
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Works Progress Administration ◽  
Emergency Relief ◽  
Illegal Aliens ◽  
Local Implementation ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter discusses the subsequent battle over citizenship and legal status restrictions in the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the local implementation of those restrictions. When the WPA was first authorized in 1935, there were no citizenship or legal status restrictions for access to the program. Just as with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), New Deal officials expressly forbade local WPA administrators from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, or non-citizenship. Because of these non-discrimination provisions, blacks and Mexican Americans gained unprecedented access to WPA employment. Over time, however, Congress imposed successively harsher restrictions against aliens, barring the employment of illegal aliens on WPA projects in 1936 and imposing a full ban for legal non-citizens by 1939. While these citizenship restrictions constituted the greatest challenge to aliens' access to the welfare state during this period, its impact was short-lived and its effects fell disproportionately on Mexican non-citizens.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document