Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Americans at the Gate 1
6. Chapter 1. “The Age of the Uprooted Man”: The United States and Refugees, 1900–1952 11
7. Chapter 2. “A Mystic Maze of Enforcement”: The Refugee Relief Program 34
8. Chapter 3. “From Hungary, New Americans”: The United States and Hungarian Refugees 60
9. Chapter 4. “Half a Loaf”: The Failure of Refugee Policy and Law Reform, 1957–1965 86
10. Chapter 5. “They Are Proud People”: The United States and Refugees from Cuba, 1959–1966 106
11. Chapter 6. “The Soul of Our Sense of Nationhood”: Human Rights and Refugees in the 1970s 133
12. Chapter 7. Reform and Retrenchment: The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan Administration’s Refugee Policies 167
13. Epilogue. The United States and Refugees after the Cold War 197
14. Notes 207
15. Index 257
16. Backmatter 265