Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship

John J. Bukowczyk is a professor of history at Wayne State University and a coauthor of Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990.

• CoverTitleCopyrightContents1. Introduction - John J. Bukowczyk2. Indians and Immigrants—Entangled Histories - Gunlög Fur3. "The Great Entrepot for Mendicants": Foreign Poverty and Immigration Control in New York State to 1882 - Hidetaka Hirota4. Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Policy, 1882–1924 - Douglas C. Baynton5. Sentiment and the Restrictionist State: Evidence from the British Caribbean Experience, ca. 1925 - Lara Putnam6. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality and the "New Immigrant" Working Class - James R. Barrett and David Roediger7. Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border - Mark Overmyer-Velazquez8. "Forget All Differences until the Forces of Freedom Are Triumphant": The World War II–Era Quest for Ethnic and Religious Tolerance - Robert L. Fleegler9. Romantic Crossings: Making Love, Family, and Non-Whiteness in California, 1925–1950 - Allison Varzally10. An Unintended Reform: The 1965 Immigration Act and Third World Immigration to the United States - David M. Reimers11. Queering Mariel: Mediating Cold War Foreign Policy and U.S. Citizenship among Cuba's Homosexual Exile Community, 1978-1994 - Julio Capo Jr.12. "Couch Potatoes and Super-Women": Gender, Migration, and the Emerging Discourse on Housework among Asian Idian Immigrants - Vibha Bhalla13. Malls of Meaning: Building Asian America in Silicon Valley Suburbia - Willow Lung-Amam14. The Politics of Expulsion: A Short History of Alabama's Anti-Immigrant Law, HB 56 - Raymond A. Mohl15. American Muslims and Authority: Competing Discourses in a Non-Muslim State - Karen Leonard