TY  - BOOK
AU  - Law,Anna O.
TI  - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants 
SN  - 9780197660096
AV  - KF 4700 .L39 2026
PY  - 2026///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Emigration and immigration law
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Border security
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
N1  - 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 --
N2  - "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
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