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James A. Tyner

Oriental Bodies

Discourse and Discipline in U.S. Immigration Policy, 1875-1942

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Oriental Bodies charts the discursive transformations of U.S. immigration policy between 1875 and 1942. Author James Tyner concentrates on the confluence of eugenics, geopolitics, and Orientalism as these intersect in the debates surrounding the exclusion of immigrants from China, Japan, and the Philippines. This unique work argues that United States immigration policy was founded on a particular discourse of eugenics and geopolitics and that this concentration was informed by a greater Orientalist discourse. Drawing from American foreign policy, identity politics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, and feminist theory, this fascinating st… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7391-1297-7
  • EAN: 9780739112977
  • Produktnummer: 2901394
  • Verlag: Lexington Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 126 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 195 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 195

Über den Autor


James A. Tyner is Professor of Geography at Kent State University, Ohio. His research operates at the intersection of political and population geography with a focus on war, violence and genocide. He is the author of 13 books, including War, Violence, and Population (2009) which received the AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Geography and Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines' Will to War (2007) which received the Julian Minghi Award for Outstanding Contribution to Political Geography.

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