The making of modern immigration: an introduction / Patrick J. Hayes

Jane Addams (1860-1935): settling in the American city / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Alien and Sedition Acts / Rochelle Raineri Zuck

Assimilation versus absorption / Utku Sezgin

Asylees / Loanna L. Mosser

Lyman Beecher (1775-1863): the no popery crusade / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Bilingualism / Julia C. Skinner

Boat people, 1975-2000 / Carmen DeMichele

Brain drain / John H. Barnhill

Canadian immigration to the United States / David Pieper

Emanuel Celler/Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 / Christina Anne Ziegler-McPherson

Cesar Chavez (1927-1993): migrant farmworkers / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Laura Fermi (1907-1977): illustrious immigrants / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Henry Ford (1863-1947): the protocols of the elders of Zion / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Madison Grant (1865-1937): the passing of the great race / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Oscar Handlin (1915-2011): the uprooted and other images of immigration / Mary Elizabeth Brown

John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864): definitions of "assimilation" / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Immigration and the arts / Matthew Peterson

Immigration and customs enforcement / Sofya Aptekar

Immigration and disability / Douglas C. Baynton

Immigration and the military / Cristina Ioana Dragomir

Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)/McCarrawn-Walter Act / Maddalena Marinari

Immigration and the Nazi era / Jeffrey Scott Demsky

Immigration and politics / Aristide R. Zolberg

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 / Jean-Paul R. deGuzman

Immigration and religion / Patrick J. Hayes

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): "A right which nature has given to all men" / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Denis Kearney (1847-1907): "The Chinese must go!" / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009): immigration as a solution to other problems / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924): immigration restriction as national policy / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Patrick Anthony McCarran (1876-1954): Cold War immigration / Mary Elizabeth Brown

The melting pot versus tapestry debate / Aleander I. Stingl

Kerby Miller and the study of the Irish immigrant in America / Bryan McGovern

9/11 Commission / Philip A. Kretsedemas

A. Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936): red scare / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Joseph Petrosino (1860-1909): international criminal conspiracies / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Refugees at Oswego / Kathleen R. Warnes

Remittances / Łukasz Albański

Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914): 'How the other half lives' / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Theodore Roosevelt (1958-1919): race suicide / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Sanctuary movement / Nicholas Rademacher

Alan K. Simpson (1931- ): "There can be no perfect immigration reform bill" / Mary Elizabeth Brown

John Tanton (1934- ): of grass and grassroots / Mary Elizabeth Brown

U.S.-Mexico border violence / Judith Ann Warner and Patrick J. Hayes

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): "Cast down your buckets where you are" / Mary Elizabeth Brown

Yellow peril: the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) to the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 / Ariane Knuesel

An immigration timeline of the United States.