Bibliograph

Type

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Dividing lines, the politics of immigration control in America, Daniel J. Tichenor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dividing lines

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

47717781

Responsibility statement

Daniel J. Tichenor

Series statement

Princeton studies in American politics

Sub title

the politics of immigration control in America

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

Table Of Contents

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

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