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Immigration and the Politics of American Sovereignty, 1890-1990 » (New Edition)
Authors: Cheryl Lynne Shanks
ISBN-13: 9780472112043, ISBN-10: 047211204X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: August 2001
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Cheryl Lynne Shanks
Book Synopsis
An exploration of how and why public arguments about immigrants change over time--and of the implications for our understanding of national sovereignty
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Arguments about Immigrants | 10 |
| 3 | Whether to Exclude | 31 |
| 4 | Whom to Exclude: The Quota Acts | 55 |
| 5 | Whom to Exclude: The McCarran-Walter Act | 96 |
| 6 | Whom to Exclude, Whom to Prefer: The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 | 144 |
| 7 | Whom to Exclude, Whom to Prefer: IRCA and the 1990 Reforms | 187 |
| 8 | Domestic Interests as Explanations | 230 |
| 9 | Structural Theories as Explanations | 245 |
| 10 | Conclusion: Sovereignty, Things, and People | 268 |
| Appendixes | 285 | |
| Notes | 295 | |
| Bibliography | 339 | |
| Index | 379 |
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