Dividing Lines : The Politics of Immigration Control in America / Daniel J. Tichenor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tichenor, Daniel J., author.

Series:

Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives

Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants.

Immigration--America.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Immigrants.

Immigration--America.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2002]

Language Note:

In English.

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 immigration defenders and doubters over time and of the transformative policy regimes they built. Tichenor takes us from vibrant nineteenth-century politics that propelled expansive European admissions and Chinese exclusion to the draconian restrictions that had taken hold by the 1920s, including racist "as that later hampered the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust. American global leadership and interest group politics in the decades after World War II, he argues, led to a surprising expansion of immigration opportunities. In the 1990s, a surge of restrictionist fervor spurred the political mobilization of recent immigrants. Richly documented, this pathbreaking work shows that a small number of interlocking temporal processes, not least changing institutional opportunities and constraints, underlie the turning tides of immigration sentiments and policy regimes. Complementing a dynamic narrative with a host of helpful tables and timelines, Dividing Lines is the definitive treatment of a phenomenon that has profoundly shaped the character of American nationhood.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9786612087547

9781400814749

140081474X

9781282087545

1282087541

9781400824984

1400824982

OCLC:

496279998