Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered

Maddalena Marinari is an assistant professor of history at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of From Unwanted to Restricted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965. Madeline Y. Hsu is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority. María Cristina Garcia is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. Her most recent book is The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America.

"A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered is a terrific anthology of thirteen essays, excavating the fertile history of immigration between 1924 and 1965." --Journal of American Ethnic History"This book makes a good case for why we must understand the mid-century period as part of a larger history of US immigration. As an overview of some of the best recent work on the period, this compilation stands out." --History"This anthology provides an excellent analysis of immigration policy changes in the 1924-1965 period. . . . These essays are well worth reading and offer a new, more comprehensive look at this period." --Journal of American History

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Policy and LawBeyond Borders: Remote Control and the Continuing Legacy of Racism in Immigration LegislationGatekeeping in the Tropics: US Immigration Policy and the Cuban ConnectionContested Terrain: Debating Refugee Admissions in the Cold WarThe Geopolitical Origins of the 1965 Immigration ActPart II. LaborHunting for Sailors: Restaurant Raids and Conscription of Laborers during World War IIThe State Management of Guest Workers: The Decline of the Bracero Program, the Rise of Temporary Worker VisasSetting the Stage to Bring in the "Highly Skilled": Project Paperclip and the Recruitment of German Specialists after World War IIJapanese Agricultural Labor Program: Temporary Worker Immigration, US-Japan Cultural Diplomacy, and Ethnic Community Making among Japanese AmericansPart III: "Who is a Citizen? Who Belongs?"The Undertow of Reforming ImmigrationForeign, Dark, Young, Citizen Puerto Rican Youth and the Forging of an American Identity, 1930–70Japanese War Brides and the Normalization of Family Unification after World War IILove as Mirror and Pathway: The Undocumented Emotive Configuration of Mexican ImmigrationAfterword: The Black Presence in US Immigration HistoryContributorsIndex