Introduction. Illegal aliens : a problem of law and history
pt. I. The regime of quotas and papers
1. The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the reconstruction of race in immigration law
2. Deportation policy and the making and unmaking of illegal aliens
pt. II. Migrants at the margins of law and nation
3. From colonial subject to undesirable alien : Filipino migration in the invisible empire
4. Braceros, "wetbacks," and the national boundaries of class
pt. III. War, nationalism, and alien citizenship
5. The World War II internment of Japanese Americans and the citizenship renunciation cases
6. The Cold War Chinese immigration crisis and the confession cases
pt. IV: Pluralism and nationalism in post-World War II immigration reform
7. The liberal critique and reform of immigration policy
