02813cam a22004098i 4500001001400000003000400014005001700018007000300035008004100038010001700079020002900096020002800125020001800153020002400171020001800195040003900213042000800252043001200260050002300272100008100295245012500376263000900501264005000510300002700560336007300587337007100660338006900731504005100800505029700851520097001148650004002118650005902158650004502217650005202262650004402314650004502358in00024480787DLC20260715132934.0t|260224s2026    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2025051477  a9780197660096qpaperback  a9780197660089qhardback  z9780197660126  z9780197660119qepub  z9780197660102  aPUCPRbengerdacDLCdDLC-MRCdDLC  apcc  an-us---00aKF 4700b.L39 20261 aLaw, Anna O.,d1970-eauthor4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aMigration and the Origins of American Citizenship :bAfrican Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants /cAnna O. Law.  a2603 1aNew York :bOxford University Press,c©2026.  ax , 294 pages;c24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent0http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia0http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  tSifting Migrants --tBelonging -- tMigration and Citizenship at the Founding --tRegulating International Borders --tRegulating Interstate Borders --tFormal Citizenship Defined -- tHistorical Antecedents and Legal Precedents --tEpilogue: Continuity, Change , and Constitutional Memory --  a"Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship is about how constitutional arrangements of governmental power can become entrenched to determine who gets fundamental rights. Immigrants arrived in the US with few resources beyond a willingness to work hard. They started over to rebuild their lives in a new country and turned nothing into something. That is the American Dream. Americans hold as an article of faith that hardy risk takers were admitted into the country for long term, permanent residency could go and live where they wanted, until the federal government started enforcing borders in the late nineteenth century to mitigate the ills of the mass migration. Yet this was not the historical reality. Instead, colonies, states, and localities legally denied free mobility into and across the country to unwanted populations until the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments clarified US citizenship's coverage and contents"-- Provided by publisher. 0aCitizenshipzUnited StatesxHistory 0aEmigration and immigration lawzUnited StatesxHistory 0aAfrican AmericansxCivil rightsxHistory 0aIndians of North AmericaxCivil rightsxHistory 0aBorder securityzUnited StatesxHistory 0aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)