Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws: Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Figures and Tables ix
• Preface xi
• Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Immigration Puzzle 1
• NOTES 16
• Chapter 2 - Public Opinion: What Americans Think about Immigration 21
• Chapter 3 - A History of Ambivalence 33
• NOTES 50
• Chapter 4 - How Illegal Immigration Dwarfed Legal Immigration 55
• NOTES 72
• Chapter 5 - The Elite and the State: Common Explanations for the Immigration Puzzle 77
• Conclusions 86
• NOTES 87
• Chapter 6 - The Left-Right Alliance 89
• Conclusion 122

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Figures and Tables ix
• Preface xi
• Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Immigration Puzzle 1
• NOTES 16
• Chapter 2 - Public Opinion: What Americans Think about Immigration 21
• Chapter 3 - A History of Ambivalence 33
• NOTES 50
• Chapter 4 - How Illegal Immigration Dwarfed Legal Immigration 55
• NOTES 72
• Chapter 5 - The Elite and the State: Common Explanations for the Immigration Puzzle 77
• Conclusions 86
• NOTES 87
• Chapter 6 - The Left-Right Alliance 89
• Conclusion 122
• NOTES 122
• Chapter 7 - Insulation from Public Opinion: The Politics of Family and Illegal Immigration 127
• Chapter 8 - Prospects for the Future 149
• NOTES 155
• Articles and Books 157
• Index 165