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Most histories of immigration law are histories of restriction. This emphasis is hardly surprising: beginning in 1875, Congress passed increasingly draconian acts, mostly targeting Chinese immigrants, which ultimately led to the outright exclusion of nearly all Asian immigrants. Then, in the 1920s, Congress enacted quotas aimed at keeping the U.S. population primarily white, with an emphasis on immigrants from northern and western European stock. And throughout history in general, immigration law has focused not only on excluding but also on deporting those immigrants deemed undesirable. In addition to focusing on exclusion, immigration law history has also been preoccupied with federal law after 1875. This emphasis is explained in large part because immigration law is exclusively federal today, and the first restrictive federal immigration law, which banned Chinese prostitutes and criminals, was passed in 1875. Before 1875, restrictive federal immigration law was virtually nonexistent. But immigration was widespread and actively encouraged at all levels of government in the mid-nineteenth century. Immigrants from Europe flooded the East Coast of the United States, partly as a result of the revolutions of 1848 and the Irish Famine of 1845-1849. By 1870, forty percent of the residents of several major cities, including New York and Chicago, were foreign-born. Immigration was even more important to the development of the West Coast.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Series Foreword -- Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation to Security, Citizenship, and Rights -- PART ONE. Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management -- 1. The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930-2020) -- 2. "A Necessary Evil"? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974-1993 -- 3. "All the Time, Hard Time": Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants -- PART TWO. Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights -- 4. What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark -- 5. "I'm Not a Bad Guy, I Swear": Analyzing Emotion Work and Negotiations of Criminality and Masculinity in Vietnamese-Canadian Men's Participation in "Fake Wedding" Arrangements -- 6. Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights -- PART THREE. Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies -- 7. Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada -- 8. Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France -- 9. He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations -- PART FOUR. Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy -- 10. "I Don't Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore": Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility -- 11. Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan -- 12. Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State -- 13. Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index