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This 5 page paper discusses the ways in which official U.S. immigration policy served in actuality to control immigration by race and gender. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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during the early period of immigration. It also discusses how literal policing of the borders using these and other exclusionary methods put a figurative border around the country, as well
as how policing ports of entry both produced and then normalized certain concepts of citizenry such as gender and race. Finally, it describes how thinking outside the box is useful
for understanding the productive side of immigration; as well as the anxiety raised over the question of who polices the immigrants and the moral stand implied by immigration policies with
regard to the "good potential citizen" and the "bad alien." Discussion Exclusions, LPC classification and the gendering/normalization of immigration: The United States, its often said, is a nation of immigrants,
but it seems ambivalent about this part of its history. There have always been quotas for the number of people who can be admitted, but at times policies were enacted
that tightened these numbers to decrease immigrants from certain countries, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that was designed specifically to keep Chinese from emigrating. It was of
course completely racist in its origin but its one example of the way the government has used laws to carry out otherwise objectionable policies. The acronym "LPC" stands for "likely
to become a public charge," and was a term applied exclusively to women who immigrated to the United States; it gendered the immigration laws and was used as a method
of excluding those the border agents deemed undesirable (Gender in immigration: Era of restriction, 2010; hereafter "Gender in immigration, 2010"). During the period 1882-1924, the immigration law was revised frequently
and one of the changes made was to "expand the categories of exclusion that could be invoked by border agents to deny newly arrived immigrants entry into the country" (Gender
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