You are not signed in. Sign in.

List Books: Buy books on ListBooks.org

Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America by Daniel J. Tichenor

Authors: Daniel J. Tichenor
ISBN-13: 9780691088051, ISBN-10: 0691088055
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: May 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

Find Best Prices for This Book »

Author Biography: Daniel J. Tichenor

Book Synopsis

"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

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1Introduction1
Ch. 2The Politics of Immigration Control: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes16
Ch. 3Immigrant Voters in a Partisan Polity: European Settlers, Nativism, and American Immigration Policy, 1776-189646
Ch. 4Chinese Exclusion and Precocious State-Building in the Nineteenth-Century American Polity87
Ch. 5Progressivism, War, and Scientific Policymaking: The Rise of the National Origins Quota System, 1900-1928114
Ch. 6Two-Tiered Implementation: Jewish Refugees, Mexican Guestworkers, and Administrative Politics150
Ch. 7Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics176
Ch. 8The Rebirth of American Immigration: The Rights Revolution, New Restrictionism, and Policy Deadlock219
Ch. 9Two Faces of Expansion: The Contemporary Politics of Immigration Reform242
Ch. 10Conclusion289
AppThe Sample of Interviewees297
Notes299
Index361

Subjects