Cover
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Policy and Law
Beyond Borders: Remote Control and the Continuing Legacy of Racism in Immigration Legislation
Gatekeeping in the Tropics: US Immigration Policy and the Cuban Connection
Contested Terrain: Debating Refugee Admissions in the Cold War
The Geopolitical Origins of the 1965 Immigration Act
Part II. Labor
Hunting for Sailors: Restaurant Raids and Conscription of Laborers during World War II
The State Management of Guest Workers: The Decline of the Bracero Program, the Rise of Temporary Worker Visas
Setting the Stage to Bring in the “Highly Skilled”: Project Paperclip and the Recruitment of German Specialists after World War II
Japanese Agricultural Labor Program: Temporary Worker Immigration, US-Japan Cultural Diplomacy, and Ethnic Community Making among Japanese Americans
Part III: “Who is a Citizen? Who Belongs?”
The Undertow of Reforming Immigration
Foreign, Dark, Young, Citizen Puerto Rican Youth and the Forging of an American Identity, 1930–70
Japanese War Brides and the Normalization of Family Unification after World War II
Love as Mirror and Pathway: The Undocumented Emotive Configuration of Mexican Immigration
Afterword: The Black Presence in US Immigration History
Contributors
Index