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Article: Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States.(Book review)
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- Michigan Law Review
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- April 1, 2008
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AMERICANS IN WAITING: THE LOST STORY OF IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE UNITED STATES. By Hiroshi Motomura. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. vii, 254. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95.
INTRODUCTION
Through Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura (1) tells us three different stories about how U.S. law and policy, over time, have framed the relationship between immigrants and the American body politic. He captures the complexity, historical contingency, and democratic urgency of that relationship by canvassing the immigration law canon and teasing from it the three frameworks that have structured immigrants' social status, their ...