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Chen, Ming Hsu,

Pursuing citizenship in the enforcement era / Ming Hsu Chen. - Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2020. - xi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index.

Pursuing citizenship in the enforcement era -- Unequal citizenship : gaps in formal and substantive citizenship -- Tiered pathways to citizenship -- Unstable pathways to formal citizenship -- Barriers to full citizenship -- Constructing pathways to full citizenship.

"Ming Hsu Chen provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion"--

ISBN: 9781503608160 (cloth) 9781503612754 (paperback) 9781503612761 (ebook)

LCCN: 2019053660

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Citizenship--United States.
Immigrants--United States.
Naturalization--United States.
Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

LC Class. No.: JK1759 / .C46 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 323.6/20973