Disabled upon arrival eugenics, immigration, and the construction of race and disability / Jay Timothy Dolmage.

Contents Introduction: Immigration has never been about immigration -- ISLAND: Ellis Island and the inventions of race and disability -- PIER: Canada's Pier 21 and the memorialization of immigration -- EXPLOSION: Technologies of immigration restriction -- ARCHIVE: Affective spaces of eugenics -- Conclusion: Responsibility for tomorrow.
Abstract "A rhetorical examination of the spaces, technologies, and discourses of immigration restriction during the peak period of North American immigration in the early twentieth century. Links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics--and argues racist and ableist ideas about bodily values have never really gone away"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9780814213629 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814213626 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814254677 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN0814254675 (pbk : alk. paper)

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