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Author:
Nackenoff, Carol, author.
Title:
American by birth : Wong Kim Ark and the battle for citizenship / Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov.
Publisher:
University Press of Kansas,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xxi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
United States.--Constitution.--14th Amendment.
Ark, Wong Kim--Trials, litigation, etc.
Constitution (United States)
Citizenship--United States.
Emigration and immigration law--United States.
Asian Americans--History.--History.
Chinese Americans--History.--History.
Asian Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
Citizenship
Emigration and immigration law
United States
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
History.
Other Authors:
Novkov, Julie, 1966- author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The foundations of American citizenship -- Chinese immigration and the legal shift toward exclusion -- The legal battle over exclusion -- Who was Wong Kim Ark? -- Wong Kim Ark v. United States -- Citizenship and immigration : the next battles -- Revisiting Jus Soli : contemporary developments / coauthored with Marit Vike.
Summary:
"In his infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Chief Justice Taney had denied that any American descended from Africans, whether free or slave, could claim citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause repudiated this principle. The Fourteenth Amendment's connection to birthright citizenship, however, is not built exclusively through the lives and fortunes of black citizens. It requires an understanding of the Chinese experience of migration to the United States, and Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898) lies at the center of this story. Wong Kim Ark, a man in his mid-twenties who had been born in San Francisco to Chinese parents, was refused entry into the United States upon returning from a visit to China. By 1898, the strict policy forbidding most Chinese from entering the United States was well established, and Wong Kim Ark did not claim to fall into one of the narrow exceptional categories like merchant, diplomat, or student. Rather, he claimed that his birth in San Francisco rendered him a citizen. By a vote of six to two, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed. The landmark case established the principle that jus soli (geographically defined birthright citizenship) extended even to the children of US residents who were themselves barred from naturalization on racial grounds. In recent years, birthright citizenship in the United States has provoked renewed controversy. In a political moment when Americans are deeply divided over immigration, there is a special need to understand anew the history behind the longstanding principle that even the children of undocumented immigrants are citizens when they are born in the United States"-- Provided by the publisher.
ISBN:
0700631925
9780700631926
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1195815540
LCCN:
2020040363
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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