Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

by Jay Timothy Dolmage

Book Overview

In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise forms the crux of Jay Timothy Dolmage's new book Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability, a compelling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814254675
• ISBN13: 9780814254677
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"