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Author Zolberg, Aristide R., author.

Title A nation by design : immigration policy in the fashioning of America / Aristide R. Zolberg
Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition
Published New York, New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2008
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 658 pages) : illustrations
Contents Themes and perspectives -- From empire to republic -- An Acquisitive upstart -- The American system -- Tocqueville's footnote -- Seward's other follies -- "An intelligent and effective restriction" -- A Nation like the others -- The Ambiguities of reform -- The Elusive quest for coherence -- Why the gates were not shut -- Conclusion: National design in a globalizing world -- Appendix: Immigration graphs
Notes Originally published: 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2022)
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Russell Sage Foundation, copublisher.
ISBN 9780674045460
0674045467
Other Titles Immigration policy in the fashioning of America