Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border by Bavery, Ashley Johnson
Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border by Bavery, Ashley Johnson

Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border

In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged...
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Author: Ashley Johnson Bavery
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Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border by Bavery, Ashley Johnson

Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border

$160.28
Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border by Bavery, Ashley Johnson

Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border

$160.28
Author: Ashley Johnson Bavery
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, 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.

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, Bootlegged Aliens reveals, citizenship was highly contingent.

Author: Ashley Johnson Bavery
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 09/25/2020
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780812252439

About the Author
Ashley Johnson Bavery is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University.
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