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Americans in Waiting : The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States by Hiroshi Motomura is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Americans in Waiting : The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States about?
Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially being treated as future citizens—Americans in waiting. Challenging current conceptions, the author def
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hiroshi Motomura
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195336085
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Law, Political Science, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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