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Enter The Poor: American Welfare Reform, Solidarity And The Capability Of Human Flourishing, Vincent Rougeau
Enter The Poor: American Welfare Reform, Solidarity And The Capability Of Human Flourishing, Vincent Rougeau
Vincent D. Rougeau
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Through The Back Door: Applying Theories Of Legal Compliance To Illegal Immigration During The Chinese Exclusion Era, Emily Ryo
Emily Ryo
This article applies theories of legal compliance to analyze the making of this country’s first “illegal immigrants”—Chinese laborers who crossed the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders in defiance of the Chinese exclusion laws (1882–1943). Drawing upon a variety of sources, including unpublished government records, I explore the ways in which Chinese laborers gained surreptitious entry into the United States during this period and ask, what explains their mass noncompliance? I suggest that while an instrumental perspective is useful for understanding these border crossings, it overlooks other important determinants of noncompliance: normative values and opportunity structures. Specifically, the exclusion laws were widely …