- Summary
- Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book presents a study of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to the struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen rights, and illegal aliens.
- Series
- Princeton studies in American politics
Princeton studies in American politics.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Tichenor, Daniel J., 1966-
- Published
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
©2002
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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The politics of immigration control : understanding the rise and fall of policy regimes
Immigrant voters in a partisan polity : European settlers, nativism, and American immigration policy, 1776-1896
Chinese exclusion and precocious state-building in the nineteenth-century American polity
Progressivism, war, and scientific policymaking : the rise of the national origins quota system, 1900-1928
Two-tiered implementation : Jewish refugees, Mexican guestworkers, and administrative politics
Strangers in Cold War America : the modern presidency, committee barons, and postwar immigration politics
The rebirth of American immigration : the rights revolution, new restrictionism, and policy deadlock
Two faces of expansion : the contemporary politics of immigration reform.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of immigration control : understanding the rise and fall of policy regimes -- Immigrant voters in a partisan polity : European settlers, nativism, and American immigration policy, 1776-1896 -- Chinese exclusion and precocious state-building in the nineteenth-century American polity -- Progressivism, war, and scientific policymaking : the rise of the national origins quota system, 1900-1928 -- Two-tiered implementation : Jewish refugees, Mexican guestworkers, and administrative politics -- Strangers in Cold War America : the modern presidency, committee barons, and postwar immigration politics -- The rebirth of American immigration : the rights revolution, new restrictionism, and policy deadlock -- Two faces of expansion : the contemporary politics of immigration reform.
