| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America. By Daniel J. Tichenor. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiv, 378 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-08804-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-691-08805-5.)

Despite the scholarly attention paid to immigration to the United States, there has been little attempt to make sense of the significant shifts in American immigration policy historically. Daniel J. Tichenor's excellent book, Dividing Lines, draws on extensive research to tackle a set of central puzzles: Why did U.S. immigration policy toward European immigration remain laissez-faire throughout much of the nineteenth century, even though significant opposition to immigration was apparent almost immediately? What explains the success of restrictionists by the early twentieth century? And how did policy tilt toward expansionism by 1965?

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