Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. CHAPTER ONE. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER TWO. The Politics of Immigration Control: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes 16
7. CHAPTER THREE. Immigrant Voters in a Partisan Polity: European Settlers, Nativism, and American Immigration Policy, 1776–1896 46
8. CHAPTER FOUR. Chinese Exclusion and Precocious State-Building in the Nineteenth-Century American Polity 87
9. CHAPTER FIVE. Progressivism, War, and Scientific Policymaking: The Rise of the National Origins Quota System, 1900–1928 114
10. CHAPTER SIX. Two-Tiered Implementation: Jewish Refugees, Mexican Guestworkers, and Administrative Politics 150
11. CHAPTER SEVEN. Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics 176
12. CHAPTER EIGHT. The Rebirth of American Immigration: The Rights Revolution, New Restrictionism, and Policy Deadlock 219
13. CHAPTER NINE. Two Faces of Expansion: The Contemporary Politics of Immigration Reform 242
14. CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion 289
15. APPENDIX. The Sample of Interviewees 297
16. Notes 299
17. Index 361