Authors: Daniel J. Tichenor
ISBN-13: 9780691088051, ISBN-10: 0691088055
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: May 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
"Daniel Tichenor's Dividing Lines is one of the best books on U.S. immigration policy to appear in the past decade. Political scientists, sociologists, historians, and nonacademic readers will all find it illuminating."--Martin Shefter, Cornell University
"This is an excellent book. It constitutes a superb narrative history of American immigration policy and reform, makes sense of the trajectory of this development, and connects the politics and history of immigration reform to a set of larger theoretical claims in the field of American political development. It thus makes a number of important contributions, not only to immigration history but also to American political development and the historical-institutional study of politics generally."--Robert C. Lieberman, Columbia University
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Acknowledgments | ||
Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
Ch. 2 | The Politics of Immigration Control: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes | 16 |
Ch. 3 | Immigrant Voters in a Partisan Polity: European Settlers, Nativism, and American Immigration Policy, 1776-1896 | 46 |
Ch. 4 | Chinese Exclusion and Precocious State-Building in the Nineteenth-Century American Polity | 87 |
Ch. 5 | Progressivism, War, and Scientific Policymaking: The Rise of the National Origins Quota System, 1900-1928 | 114 |
Ch. 6 | Two-Tiered Implementation: Jewish Refugees, Mexican Guestworkers, and Administrative Politics | 150 |
Ch. 7 | Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics | 176 |
Ch. 8 | The Rebirth of American Immigration: The Rights Revolution, New Restrictionism, and Policy Deadlock | 219 |
Ch. 9 | Two Faces of Expansion: The Contemporary Politics of Immigration Reform | 242 |
Ch. 10 | Conclusion | 289 |
App | The Sample of Interviewees | 297 |
Notes | 299 | |
Index | 361 |