Disparate Regimes - Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865–1965

State-level politics about immigrants and state laws governing immigrant rights varied greatly from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Disparate Regimes explores how this disparity of policy greatly impacted the lives and livelihoods of immigrants across the country, empowering the notion that citizenship rights equaled citizen-only rights in the United States.