03021cam a22004698i 4500 in00024480787 DLC 20260715132934.0 t| 260224s2026 nyu b 001 0 eng 2025051477 9780197660096 paperback 9780197660089 hardback 9780197660126 9780197660119 epub 9780197660102 PUCPR eng rda DLC DLC-MRC DLC pcc n-us--- cicg KF 4700 .L39 2026 Law, Anna O., 1970- author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship : African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants / Anna O. Law. 2603 New York : Oxford University Press, ©2026. x , 294 pages; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt unmediated n rdamedia http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n volume nc rdacarrier http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc Includes bibliographical references and index. Sifting Migrants -- Belonging -- Migration and Citizenship at the Founding -- Regulating International Borders -- Regulating Interstate Borders -- Formal Citizenship Defined -- Historical Antecedents and Legal Precedents -- Epilogue: Continuity, Change , and Constitutional Memory -- "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. Citizenship United States History Emigration and immigration law United States History African Americans Civil rights History Indians of North America Civil rights History Border security United States History Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 6 lcc 306116 306116 0 0 lcc 0 0 7 7 4 2026-06-08 Caribbean Library Consulting Corp. 49.99 0 KF 4700 .L39 2026 70000000906519 2026-07-15 13:34:43 c. 1 49.99 2026-07-15 6