| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 378 pages) : illustrations |
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Princeton studies in American politics |
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Princeton studies in American politics.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Politics of Immigration Control: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes -- Ch. 3. Immigrant Voters in a Partisan Polity: European Settlers, Nativism, and American Immigration Policy, 1776-1896 -- Ch. 4. Chinese Exclusion and Precocious State-Building in the Nineteenth-Century American Polity -- Ch. 5. Progressivism, War, and Scientific Policymaking: The Rise of the National Origins Quota System, 1900-1928 -- Ch. 6. Two-Tiered Implementation: Jewish Refugees, Mexican Guestworkers, and Administrative Politics -- Ch. 7. Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics -- Ch. 8. The Rebirth of American Immigration: The Rights Revolution, New Restrictionism, and Policy Deadlock -- Ch. 9. Two Faces of Expansion: The Contemporary Politics of Immigration Reform -- Ch. 10. Conclusion -- App. The Sample of Interviewees |
| Summary |
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, noncitizen rights, and illegal aliens. Weaving a robust new theoretical approach into a sweeping history, Daniel Tichenor ties together previous studies' idiosyncratic explanations for particular, pivotal twists and turns of immigration policy. He tells the story of lively political battles between immigrat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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American Political Science Association Gladys M. Kammerer Award, 2003 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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Einwanderungspolitik
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Immigratie.
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Overheidsbeleid.
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Émigration et immigration -- Politique publique -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History
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United States
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USA
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États-Unis -- Émigration et immigration -- Histoire.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
140081474X |
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9781400814749 |
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9781400824984 |
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1400824982 |
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1282087541 |
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9781282087545 |
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