Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Women, sexuality, and economic dependency in early U.S. deportation policy -- Interrogating sexuality in Europe, urban America, and along the Mexican border -- Gender, dependency, and the likely to become a public charge provision -- Loathsome or contagious : immigrant bodies, disease, and Eugenics and the borders -- Clash of civilizations : whiteness, orientalism, and the limits of religious tolerance at the borders -- Deportation based on politics, labor, and ideology -- Immigrants' rights as human rights -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Excerpts of major U.S. legislation pertaining to immigration deportation policy -- Appendix B: Aliens removed or returned, fiscal years 1892 to 2008 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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