Anti-Nation

Journal Article Anti-Nation Get access Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Princeton University Press, 2004; 377 pp. $49.95 hbk, $19.95 pbk; ISBN 0-691-07471-2. Leo R. Chavez Leo R. Chavez Leo R. Chavez is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His research examines various issues related to transnational migration, including immigrant families and households, labour-market participation, motivations for migration, the use of medical services, and media constructions of ‘immigrant’ and ‘nation’. He is the author of Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (1992, 1997), an ethnographic account of Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants in San Diego County, California; and of Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (2001), on the ways immigrants are represented in the media and popular discourse in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 353–359, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbm020 Published: 01 March 2007

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