Research Catalog
- Title
- Dividing lines : the politics of immigration control in America / Daniel J. Tichenor.
- Author
- Tichenor, Daniel J., 1966-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
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- Description
- xii, 378 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book presents a study of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to the struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen rights, and illegal aliens.
- Series Statement
- Princeton studies in American politics
- Uniform Title
- Princeton studies in American politics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-360) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0691088047
- 0691088055 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001036870
- OCLC
- 47717781
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library