The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870–1965

TitleThe Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870–1965
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsGardner, Martha Mabie
Number of Pages271
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CityPrinceton, NJ
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The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how radicalized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The book takes us from the first federal immigration restrictions against Asian prostitutes in the 1870s to the immigration "reform" measures of the late 1960s. Throughout this period, topics such as morality, family, marriage, poverty, and nationality structured historical debates over women's immigration.

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