{"product_id":"bootlegged-aliens-immigration-politics-on-americas-northern-border-hardback-9780812252439","title":"Bootlegged Aliens; Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border (Hardback) 9780812252439","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBootlegged Aliens\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImmigration Politics on America's Northern Border\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAshley Johnson Bavery (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812252439\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 September 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 1 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.602 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Bavery provides new insights to her readers by examining a so far neglected area and group, in a little studied era within the field of immigration scholarship. Even if with a north-south and ethnic European-Hispanic shift after World War II, in many ways 100 years later we seem to be back to the same debates often fueled by nativist chords in the 'nation of immigrants.' Johnson Bavery shows how important it could be to look back and learn from the past, and she offers an attractive, well-researched, and engagingly written book for this purpose.\" (Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies) \"\u003ci\u003eBootlegged Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e helps us rethink how boundaries of citizenship shifted as the welfare state expanded. Ashley Johnson Bavery challenges the common conception that the nativism of the 1920s was largely an outgrowth of right-wing reactionary politics and demonstrates how left-wing politics of the 1920s and 1930s likewise helped build the foundation for nativist sentiments.\" (Holly M. Karibo, author of \u003ci\u003eSin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eBootlegged Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e is an engagingly written history of U.S. immigration policy centered on the experiences of southern and eastern European immigrants in Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s, with special attention to Detroit's position on the U.S.-Canadian border. It appeals to not only scholars but also anyone interested in American urban and immigration history.\" (Tracy Neumann, author of \u003ci\u003eRemaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In \u003ci\u003eBootlegged Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e, however, Ashley Johnson Bavery considers the North as a borderlands region, demonstrating how this often-overlooked border influenced government policies toward illegal immigration, business and labor union practices around migrant labor, and the experience of being an illegal immigrant in early twentieth-century industrial America. Bavery examines how immigrants, politicians, and employers helped shape national policies toward noncitizen laborers. In the process, she uncovers the northern industrial origins of an exploitative system that emerged on America's border with Canada, whose legacy remains central to debates about America's borders today.\u003cbr\u003e Bavery begins in the 1920s to explore how that decade's immigration restrictions launched an era of policing and profiling that excluded America's foreign born from the benefits of citizenship. On the border between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, this process turned certain Europeans into undocumented immigrants, a group the press and policymakers referred to as bootlegged aliens. Over the next decade, deportation and policing practices stigmatized entire communities of ethnic Europeans regardless of their legal status. Moreover, restrictive laws allowed manufacturers to exploit workers in new ways. By the Great Depression, citizenship had become an invisible boundary that excluded hundreds of thousands of laborers from New Deal entitlements. Accepted wisdom suggests that the 1924 Immigration Act had allowed ethnic Europeans to shed ties to their homelands and assimilate into the \"melting pot\" of American culture by the 1930s. Bavery challenges this perspective, finding that, instead of forging a common culture with their fellow workers, European immigrants coming through Canada to Detroit faced statewide registration drives, exclusion from key labor unions, and disqualification from the Works Progress Administration, the cornerstone of America's nascent welfare state. In the heart of industrial America, \u003ci\u003eBootlegged Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e reveals, citizenship was highly contingent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. \"Illegal Immigrants\" in an Industrial Borderland\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Defining Undesirables and Protesting Quotas\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Problem of Canadian Day Laborers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Reform, Repatriation, and Deportation During the Depression\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Registering Immigrants in the Depression Era\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Immigrant Politics of Anticommunism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Aliens and Welfare in North America\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Legacy of Restrictive Immigration\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559244001560,"sku":"9780812252439","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bootlegged-aliens-immigration-politics-on-americas-northern-border-hardback-9780812252439","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}