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“The path to national suicide”
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“The path to national suicide”
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children, futurity and exclusionary citizenship in the post-1965 U.S.
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McNulty
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Stephen
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1987-
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Stephen McNulty
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Carruthers
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Susan
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Susan Carruthers
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Rutgers University
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degree grantor
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Graduate School - Newark
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theses
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2012
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2012-05
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2012
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This thesis is driven by a belief that the myriad discourses and mechanisms of control containing U.S. birthright citizenship are fundamentally underwritten by a logic that is constantly attentive to the future. Mindful of this, I will show in this project that a national legal, political, and cultural fixation on reproductivity and children, a mania only exaggerated when concerning migrants, figures citizenship as an educatory and exclusive process, constantly in flux and always precariously held. Futurity, then, serves not only as an analytic tool to explicate citizenship, but an element fundamental to its very contemporary and historical existence. I first seek to chart the rhetorical exploitation of ideologies of gender and childhood and their historical interactions with citizenship‘s cultural, political, and legal discourses that have emerged and re-emerged as successful vehicles to attack and racialize domestic and immigrant populations. Second, I will demonstrate why birthright citizenship, as a coherent linguistic and political container, seems now to hold so much salience as a cultural and political call to arms, productive to, and informed by, formations of gender, race, and nation. To explicate these claims I will trace the historical genealogies seminal to contemporary dominant modes of immigration discourse, and in doing so evince a lineage resulting in the linguistic codification of future-oriented migrant exclusion in the “birth tourist” and “anchor baby.” “Birth tourists” and “anchor babies,” however, do not merely represent benign nomenclatures, but active discursive productions informed by hegemonies of gendered anti-migrant sentiment and perpetuated as dynamic vehicles of continued exclusion. These anxious and precarious futures detailed herein have profound historical affects, producing identities, dividing communities, and shaping lives.
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History
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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v, 105 p. : ill.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Stephen McNulty
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Naturalization--United States
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Emigration and immigration law--United States--History--20th century
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Children of illegal aliens--United States--History--20th century
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Future, The
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Citizenship--United States
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3FX78DS
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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McNulty
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Stephen
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2012-05-01 18:32:47
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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