Danielle Battisti is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She is the author of Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965. S. Deborah Kang is John L. Nau III Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954.
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"The discussion of immigration in the United States today often assumes that earlier European immigrants were lawfully admitted, presenting unauthorized entry as a new problem committed by recent immigrants from Latin America and Asia. By revealing that numerous Europeans entered the country through unauthorized channels, this volume challenges the myth of European legality in U.S. immigration history."--Hidetaka Hirota, author of Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy