Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965
Historians have well described how US immigration policy increasingly fell under the purview of federal law and national politics in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It is far less understood that the rights of noncitizen immigrants in the country remained primarily contested in the realms of state politics and law until the mid-to-late twentieth century.