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List of Tables | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction: An Untimely Intervention on the U.S. Immigration Debate | p. 1 |
Puzzling Evidence: The Contradictions of Immigration Enforcement and the Politics of Immigration Policy | p. 5 |
Immigrants and State Power: On the Margins of the Law | p. 6 |
A Different Kind of Immigration, a New Kind of Statelessness | p. 13 |
Almost Stateless: Migrant Marginality in an Era of "Nonimmigration" | p. 17 |
Policing Professional-Class Migrant Workers | p. 31 |
Racial-Ethnic Disparities and Nonimmigrant Flows | p. 36 |
Permutations of Statelessness | p. 43 |
The Secret Life of the State | p. 47 |
On Necessity, Revolution, and the Modern State | p. 50 |
The Expansion of Executive Authority Under the Modern Presidency | p. 53 |
"Populist Rebellion" and the Neoliberal State | p. 57 |
Executive Authority, Globalization, and Immigration Policy | p. 62 |
Applying Executive Discretion to Immigration Enforcement | p. 68 |
Concerned Citizens, Local Exclusions: Local Immigration Laws and the Legacy of Jim Crow | p. 73 |
Local Enforcement and Local Immigration Laws: The Policy Context | p. 76 |
Segregation or Coercive Integration? The Political Dynamics and Outcomes of Local Exclusionary Laws | p. 83 |
Interpreting the Law: Egalitarian Norms/Inegalitarian Practices | p. 92 |
Racial Disparities, Local Enforcement, and the Silence of the Law | p. 96 |
Race, Nation, Immigration: Stranded at the Crossroads of Liberal Thought | p. 104 |
Beyond the Limits of the Law | p. 105 |
Cultural Pluralism, Ethnicity Theory, and the Problem of Laissez-Faire Racism | p. 107 |
Unlikely Convergences: Liberal Multiculturalism and Cultural Conservatism | p. 111 |
Looking Beyond the Cultural Primordialist vs. Social Constructionist Divide | p. 115 |
The Immigrant as an Agent of Transformation | p. 117 |
A Nietzschean Critique of "Race Thinking" | p. 121 |
The Problem with Practicality | p. 130 |
Rethinking the Nation: A New American Dilemma | p. 134 |
Conclusion: The Immigration Crucible | p. 137 |
Immigration Policy and Enforcement Under the Obama Administration | p. 139 |
Immigration Policy, National Identity, and the Limits of Executive Authority | p. 144 |
Notes | p. 153 |
Bibliography | p. 183 |
Index | p. 205 |
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