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What is Deportable and Disposable : Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant about?
In the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the “illegal alien” took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our language about Mexican immigrants and exposes how our words made these migrants “illegal.” Deportable and Disposable brings a rhetorical lens to a question that has predominantly concerned historians: how do differently situated immigrant populations come to b
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lisa A. Flores
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271088655
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Language Arts & Disciplines, Language
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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