Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America

List of Tables and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: The Politics of Immigration Control: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes 16 Chapter Three: Immigrant Voters in a Partisan Polity: European Settlers, Nativism, and American Immigration Policy, 1776-1896 46 Chapter Four: Chinese Exclusion and Precocious State-Building in the Nineteenth-Century American Polity 87 Chapter Five: Progressivism, War, and Scientific Policymaking: The Rise of the National Origins Quota System, 1900-1928 114 Chapter Six: Two-Tiered Implementation: Jewish Refugees, Mexican Guestworkers, and Administrative Politics 150 Chapter Seven: Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics 176 Chapter Eight: The Rebirth of American Immigration: The Rights Revolution, New Restrictionism, and Policy Deadlock 219 Chapter Nine: Two Faces of Expansion: The Contemporary Politics of Immigration Reform 242 Chapter Ten: Conclusion 289 Appendix: The Sample of Interviewees 297 Notes 299 Index 361