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Dividing Lines : The Politics of Immigration Control in America /
Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
104 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO. The Politics of Immigration Control: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes
- CHAPTER THREE. Immigrant Voters in a Partisan Polity: European Settlers, Nativism, and American Immigration Policy, 1776-1896
- CHAPTER FOUR. Chinese Exclusion and Precocious State-Building in the Nineteenth-Century American Polity
- CHAPTER FIVE. Progressivism, War, and Scientific Policymaking: The Rise of the National Origins Quota System, 1900-1928
- CHAPTER SIX. Two-Tiered Implementation: Jewish Refugees, Mexican Guestworkers, and Administrative Politics
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Rebirth of American Immigration: The Rights Revolution, New Restrictionism, and Policy Deadlock
- CHAPTER NINE. Two Faces of Expansion: The Contemporary Politics of Immigration Reform
- CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion
- APPENDIX. The Sample of Interviewees
- Notes
- Index