National insecurities: immigrants and U.S. deportation policy since 1882

Women, sexuality, and economic dependency in early U.S. deportation policy

Differential regulation : Interrogating sexuality in Europe, in urban America, and along the Mexican border

Gender, dependency, and the "likely to become a public charge" provision

Loathsome or contagious : immigrant bodies, disease, and eugenics and the borders

Clash of civilizations : whiteness, orientalism, and the limits of religious tolerance at the borders

Deportation based on politics, labor, and ideology

Immigrants' rights as human rights

Appendix A: Excerpts of major U.S. legislation pertaining to immigration deportation policy

Appendix B: Aliens removed or returned, fiscal years 1892 to 2008.