Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes xi
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Toward Exclusion American Immigration Policy before World War II 5
• 2 - The New Movement to Restrict Immigration 25
• 3 - Overpopulation, Immigration, the Environment, and the New Restrictionism 43
• 4 - A Broken Immigration System 65
• 5 - Old Wine in New Bottles the Economics Debate 87
• 6 - Why Can't They Be like Us? the Assimilationist Issue 109
• 7 - A New Immigration Policy 1994-1997? 131
• Conclusions 151
• Notes 155
• Some Special Reading Lists 183
• Index 187