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Disease, Deformity, and Defiance: Writing the Language of Immigration Law and the Eugenics Movement on the Immigrant Body
Ist Teil von
Melus, 2003-03, Vol.28 (1), p.105-121
Ort / Verlag
USA: Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Dwyer examines early twentieth-century immigration laws with respect to their catalogs of physical and moral deficiencies, which disqualified immigrants from entry into the nation. She detected discursive traces of the propaganda rhetoric of the eugenics movement, whose official and unofficial spokespersons sought to "improve" the American gene pool through immigration restrictions and other forms of social engineering. The statutory language of disease, deformity, and depravity haunted ethnic communities and left traces in the literature of their difficult assimilation into the US. [PUBLICATION ABTRACT]