1. Introduction: An Untimely Intervention on the U.S. Immigration Debate
Puzzling Evidence: The Contradictions of Immigration Enforcement and the Politics of Immigration Policy
Immigrants and State Power: On the Margins of the Law
2. A Different Kind of Immigration, a New Kind of Statelessness
Almost Stateless: Migrant Marginality in an Era of "Nonimmigration"
Policing Professional-Class Migrant Workers
Racial-Ethnic Disparities and Nonimmigrant Flows
Permutations of Statelessness
3. The Secret Life of the State
On Necessity, Revolution, and the Modern State
The Expansion of Executive Authority Under the Modern Presidency
"Populist Rebellion" and the Neoliberal State
Executive Authority, Globalization, and Immigration Policy
Applying Executive Discretion to Immigration Enforcement
4. Concerned Citizens, Local Exclusions: Local Immigration Laws and the Legacy of Jim Crow
Local Enforcement and Local Immigration Laws: The Policy Context
Segregation or Coercive Integration? The Political Dynamics and Outcomes of Local Exclusionary Laws (incl. Farmingville)
Interpreting the Law: Egalitarian Norms/Inegalitarian Practices
Racial Disparities, Local Enforcement, and the Silence of the Law
5. Race, Nation, Immigration: Stranded at the Crossroads of Liberal Thought
Beyond the Limits of the Law
Cultural Pluralism, Ethnicity Theory, and the Problem of Laissez-Faire Racism
Unlikely Convergences: Liberal Multiculturalism and Cultural Conservatism
Looking Beyond the Cultural Primordialist vs. Social Constructionist Divide
The Immigrant as an Agent of Transformation
A Nietzschean Critique of "Race Thinking"
The Problem with Practicality
Rethinking the Nation: A New American Dilemma
6. Conclusion: The Immigration Crucible
Immigration Policy and Enforcement Under the Obama Administration
Immigration Policy, National Identity, and the Limits of Executive Authority.