Introduction: Immigration has never been about immigration -- ISLAND: Ellis Island and the inventions of race and disability -- PIER: Canada's Pier 21 and the memorialization of immigration -- EXPLOSION: Technologies of immigration restriction -- ARCHIVE: Affective spaces of eugenics -- Conclusion: Responsibility for tomorrow.
Summary:
"A rhetorical examination of the spaces, technologies, and discourses of immigration restriction during the peak period of North American immigration in the early twentieth century. Links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics--and argues racist and ableist ideas about bodily values have never really gone away"-- Provided by publisher.
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