TITLE
Disease, Deformity, and Defiance: Writing the Language of Immigration Law and the Eugenics Movement on the Immigrant Body
AUTHOR(S)
PUB. DATE
March 2003
SOURCE
MELUS;Spring2003, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p105
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Literary Criticism
ABSTRACT
Argues that the regulation and repression of immigrants' behavior in their new land and their discomfort with their embodied selves is an important strain in their literature. Occurrence of a restrictive language in the U.S. immigration law; Interplay between laws and nativism; Reason for the inability to imply restriction clauses in U.S. immigration laws until 1875.
ACCESSION #
9998549
