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Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s - its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants and long-term effects. In historical portraits, Ngai peoples her study with the Filipinos, Mexicans, Japanese and Chinese who comprised, variously, illegal aliens, alien citizens, colonial subjects and imported contract workers. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, re-mapped the nation both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land boarders and their patrol. This yielded the \"illegal alien\", a new legal and political subject whose inclusion in the nation was a social reality but a legal impossibility - a subject without rights and excluded from citizenship. 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