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A virtuous nation and its deserving immigrants. How the immigrant rights movement embraced nationalism

Walter J. Nichollsa Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Justus Uitermarkb Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsView further author information
Pages 381-398 | Received 04 Jul 2018, Accepted 10 Jun 2019, Published online: 13 Oct 2019

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