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Dividing Lines The Politics of Immigration Control in America

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ISBN-10: 0691088055

ISBN-13: 9780691088051

Edition: 2002

Authors: Daniel J. Tichenor

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This is a study of the politics and policies immigration has inspired, from the earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen rights and undocumented aliens.
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.09" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Elaine M. Replogle teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of Oregon. Her research and publications have focused on the sociology of health and medicine, social inequality, and immigrant and second-generation social adjustment. She is author of Head Start as a Family Support Program: Renewing a Community Ethic (Harvard Family Research Project). She is currently working on a book on the intersection of mental health and intergenerational conflict among second-generation South Asian Americans (her dissertation research). Her work on mob violence toward women, adolescent health, patterns in smoking trajectories among black and white youth, and Head Start, has appeared in…    

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Conclusion
Appendix: The Sample of Interviewees
Notes
Index