Introduction: mass immigration, past and present
Part 1.The Law of Immigration and the Legal Construction of Citizenship: 1. Unregulated immigration and Its opponents: from Colonial America to the mid-nineteenth century; 2. Regulation and exclusion; 3. Removing barriers and debating consequences in the mid-twentieth century
Part II. Emigration and Immigration From International Migrants' Perspectives: 4. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1820-1924; 5. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1965 to the present
Part III. The Dialogue of Ethnicity and Assimilation: 6. The widening mainstream; 7. The future of assimilation
Conclusion.
American immigration : a very short introduction by David A. Gerber. ISBN 9780195331783. Published by Oxford University Press. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.