Introduction / Nancy L. Green and François Weil
Leaving : a comparative view / John Torpey
The exit revolution / Aristide R. Zolberg
Emigration and nation building during the mass migrations from Europe / Donna R. Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, and Adam Walaszek
The liberal Italian state and mass emigration, 1860-1914 / Caroline Douki
The French state and transoceanic emigration / François Weil
Emigration and the British state, ca. 1815-1925 / David Feldman and M. Page Baldwin
Holland beyond the borders : emigration and the Dutch state, 1850-1940 / Corrie van Eijl and Leo Lucassen
From economics to ethnicity and back : reflections on emigration control in Germany, 1800-2000 / Andreas Fahrmeir
The United States government and the investigation of European emigration in the open door era / Dorothee Schneider
Migration and national consciousness : the Canadian case / Bruno Ramirez
Migration policy and the asymmetry of power : the Mexican case, 1900-2000 / Jorge Durand
The "overseas Chinese": the state and emigration from the 1890s through the 1990s / Carine Pina-Guerassimoff and Eric Guerassimoff
Tracing the genesis of brain drain in India through state policy and civil society / Binod Khadria
Israeli emigration policy / Steven J. Gold.
Citizenship and those who leave : the politics of emigration and expatriation. ISBN 9780252074295. Published by University of Illinois Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.