Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.