Immigration Policy in the United States

Örn B. Bodvarsson () and Hendrik Berg ()
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Örn B. Bodvarsson: St. Cloud State University
Hendrik Berg: University of Nebraska

Chapter Chapter 13 in The Economics of Immigration, 2009, pp 349-377 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents a brief history of U.S. immigration policy. U.S. immigration policy has varied greatly over the country’s history, going from complete openness at the time of independence to a rigid ethnic quota system in the early twentieth century, and now back to a more open, albeit confusingly regulated, system at the start of the twenty first century. The chapter attempts to answer the seven questions posed in the Introduction to this section for each of the distinct immigration policy regimes.

Keywords: Immigration Policy; Chinese Immigrant; Quota System; Border Patrol; African Slave (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77796-0_13

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