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Paperback Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant Book

ISBN: 0271087897

ISBN13: 9780271087894

Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant

(Part of the Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation Series)

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In the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the "illegal alien" took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our language about Mexican immigrants and exposes how our words made these migrants "illegal."

Deportable and Disposable brings a rhetorical lens to a question that has predominantly concerned historians:...

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