Fictive Kinship: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration

Tables

Tables Table 1.1 Family Immigration as a Percentage of Total Immigration to the United States, 1925 to 2011 4 Table 2.1 Major U.S. Immigration Acts 26 Table 2.2 Preference Provisions in Major U.S. Immigration Acts 27 Table 2.3 Immigrants Arriving in the United States to Join a Relative or Friend, 1908 to 1927 32 Table 2.4 Immigrants Admitted to the United States by Preference and Other Provisions, 1925 to 2010 34 Table 2.5 Legal Permanent Immigration to the United States, by Region, 1820 to 2010 37 Table 2.6 International Family Unification Provisions 38 Table 3.1 Chinese and Japanese Wives Coming to the United States Between 1908 and 1924 59 Table 3.2 The Immigration Act of 1924 66 Table 4.1 Spouses and Children Admitted Under the War Brides Act, 1946–1948 83 Table 4.2 The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 89 Table 4.3 The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 95 Table 5.1 Existing Family Preference Provisions in 1980 104 Table 5.2 The Immigration Act of 1990 107 ...