Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965

Author/Contributor(s):	Shanahan, Brendan A
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	03/14/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

State-level politics about immigrants and state laws governing immigrant rights varied greatly from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Disparate Regimes explores how this disparity of policy greatly impacted the lives and livelihoods of immigrants across the country, empowering the notion that citizenship rights equaled citizen-only rights in the United States.