This innovative work provides both a historical account of the crazy-quilt of legislation dealing with immigration that Congress has passed over the years and a theoretical explanation, building on the "new institutionalism," of how these laws came to be passed. The author shows why immigration is a uniquely revealing policy arena in which a polity chooses what it will be, a collective decision that shapes a nation's identity and defines itself. The book focuses on three aspects of immigration policy: the regulation of admission to the United States for permanent residency, the regulation of admission of people fleeing political repression, and the efforts to cope with the flow of unsanctioned migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. It identifies the most puzzling features of contemporary immigration policy, asking, Where do these policies come from? Why do they have their special characteristics? The author seeks the answers in modern theories of public policy formation, especially the currently popular new institutionalism. He offers an enhanced version of this approach, which he calls "improvisational institutionalism," and applies it to the paradoxes of immigration policy.
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- The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) by John Torpey in Back Matter
- Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation by Nancy F. Cott in Back Matter
- The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees by Matthew J. Gibney in Back Matter
- Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws: Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion by Kenneth K. Lee on page 18
- Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World. by Jane Caplan in Back Matter
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