Alienated: Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America

by Victor Romero and Michael Shapiro

Book Overview

Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a "legitimate" proxy for otherwise invidious, and often unconstitutional, discrimination on the basis of race. While racial discrimination is rarely legally acceptable today, profiling on the basis of citizenship is still largely unchecked, and has in fact arguably increased in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814775683
• ISBN13: 9780814775684
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"