T. Alexander Aleinikoff (BROOKLYN, NY) is dean of the New School for Social Research and director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School. He is the author of Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship and the coauthor of The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime. Alexandra Délano Alonso (QUEENS, NY) is a professor of Global Studies at The New School. She is the author of From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights beyond Borders and Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848.

• PrefaceA Note about the Cover ArtMarco Saavedra, red libertyPart I. The Making of a Narrative1. Toward Larger Stories: New Narratives on the Peopling of the United States of America Alexandra Délano Alonso2. Imagining an American Nation: Sharing Our StoriesKwame Anthony Appiah3. The Vague, Enduring Centrality of Whiteness in AmericaJustin Gest4. A White Settler Colony or a Revolutionary People's Colony? Narratives of America's Origins as Guides to the Peopling of the United StatesRogers M. Smith5. Dahodiyinii (Sacred Places)Dakota Mace6. American ImmigrantKaty Long7. The Future Is a Foreign Country: We'll Do Things Differently ThereJohn R. Weeks8. And Jesus, Where Is Home for You?Jesús I. VallesPart II. Beyond a "Nation of Immigrants"9. A Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an IdeaMae Ngai10. The Border Crossed Us: Taking the Measure of a Migrating CountryDaniel Immerwahr11. A Nation of Immigrants, a Nation of RefugeMaria Cristina Garcia12. Who Supports Immigration Reform?Ana Raquel Minian13. Between Family Unity and Separation: A History of Gendered Exclusions, Deviance, and Deservingness in the United StatesWendy Vogt14. A Timeline of Queer MigrationsQUEEROCRACY and Carlos Motta15. Immigration Narratives, Past and Present: The Labor DimensionRuth Milkman16. Religious Diversity and the American NarrativeEboo Patel and Neil AgarwalPart III. Alternative Narratives17. The Story of a NameHéctor Tobar18. Migrant HerbalismCinthya Santos Briones19. Reclaiming Humanity: Black History and the Cultivation of Empathetic ImaginationAllison Dorsey20. Unity in the Struggle: Immigration and the South's Emerging Civil Rights ConsensusHana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, and Taylor Dow21. Story-Walking Toward Liveable FuturesJill Anderson and Maggie Loredo22. The Narrative Machine: Profits, Brains, and the Reshaping of Our Public SpacePireeni Sundaralingam23. Elements of a National Narrative on the Peopling of AmericaT. Alexander AleinikoffAcknowledgmentsContributor BiographiesIndex

The collection offers new ways of seeing, looking, and intersections that reinvigorate our understanding of what immigration means—politically, socially, economically, and nationally.—Alyssa Quintanilla, Society for US Intellectual History

T. Alexander Aleinikoff (BROOKLYN, NY) is dean of the New School for Social Research and director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School. He is the author of Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship and the coauthor of The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime. Alexandra Délano Alonso (QUEENS, NY) is a professor of Global Studies at The New School. She is the author of From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights beyond Borders and Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848.

• PrefaceA Note about the Cover ArtMarco Saavedra, red libertyPart I. The Making of a Narrative1. Toward Larger Stories: New Narratives on the Peopling of the United States of America Alexandra Délano Alonso2. Imagining an American Nation: Sharing Our StoriesKwame Anthony Appiah3. The Vague, Enduring Centrality of Whiteness in AmericaJustin Gest4. A White Settler Colony or a Revolutionary People's Colony? Narratives of America's Origins as Guides to the Peopling of the United StatesRogers M. Smith5. Dahodiyinii (Sacred Places)Dakota Mace6. American ImmigrantKaty Long7. The Future Is a Foreign Country: We'll Do Things Differently ThereJohn R. Weeks8. And Jesus, Where Is Home for You?Jesús I. VallesPart II. Beyond a "Nation of Immigrants"9. A Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an IdeaMae Ngai10. The Border Crossed Us: Taking the Measure of a Migrating CountryDaniel Immerwahr11. A Nation of Immigrants, a Nation of RefugeMaria Cristina Garcia12. Who Supports Immigration Reform?Ana Raquel Minian13. Between Family Unity and Separation: A History of Gendered Exclusions, Deviance, and Deservingness in the United StatesWendy Vogt14. A Timeline of Queer MigrationsQUEEROCRACY and Carlos Motta15. Immigration Narratives, Past and Present: The Labor DimensionRuth Milkman16. Religious Diversity and the American NarrativeEboo Patel and Neil AgarwalPart III. Alternative Narratives17. The Story of a NameHéctor Tobar18. Migrant HerbalismCinthya Santos Briones19. Reclaiming Humanity: Black History and the Cultivation of Empathetic ImaginationAllison Dorsey20. Unity in the Struggle: Immigration and the South's Emerging Civil Rights ConsensusHana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, and Taylor Dow21. Story-Walking Toward Liveable FuturesJill Anderson and Maggie Loredo22. The Narrative Machine: Profits, Brains, and the Reshaping of Our Public SpacePireeni Sundaralingam23. Elements of a National Narrative on the Peopling of AmericaT. Alexander AleinikoffAcknowledgmentsContributor BiographiesIndex

The collection offers new ways of seeing, looking, and intersections that reinvigorate our understanding of what immigration means—politically, socially, economically, and nationally.—Alyssa Quintanilla, Society for US Intellectual History

T. Alexander Aleinikoff (BROOKLYN, NY) is dean of the New School for Social Research and director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School. He is the author of Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship and the coauthor of The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime. Alexandra Délano Alonso (QUEENS, NY) is a professor of Global Studies at The New School. She is the author of From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights beyond Borders and Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848.

• PrefaceA Note about the Cover ArtMarco Saavedra, red libertyPart I. The Making of a Narrative1. Toward Larger Stories: New Narratives on the Peopling of the United States of America Alexandra Délano Alonso2. Imagining an American Nation: Sharing Our StoriesKwame Anthony Appiah3. The Vague, Enduring Centrality of Whiteness in AmericaJustin Gest4. A White Settler Colony or a Revolutionary People's Colony? Narratives of America's Origins as Guides to the Peopling of the United StatesRogers M. Smith5. Dahodiyinii (Sacred Places)Dakota Mace6. American ImmigrantKaty Long7. The Future Is a Foreign Country: We'll Do Things Differently ThereJohn R. Weeks8. And Jesus, Where Is Home for You?Jesús I. VallesPart II. Beyond a "Nation of Immigrants"9. A Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an IdeaMae Ngai10. The Border Crossed Us: Taking the Measure of a Migrating CountryDaniel Immerwahr11. A Nation of Immigrants, a Nation of RefugeMaria Cristina Garcia12. Who Supports Immigration Reform?Ana Raquel Minian13. Between Family Unity and Separation: A History of Gendered Exclusions, Deviance, and Deservingness in the United StatesWendy Vogt14. A Timeline of Queer MigrationsQUEEROCRACY and Carlos Motta15. Immigration Narratives, Past and Present: The Labor DimensionRuth Milkman16. Religious Diversity and the American NarrativeEboo Patel and Neil AgarwalPart III. Alternative Narratives17. The Story of a NameHéctor Tobar18. Migrant HerbalismCinthya Santos Briones19. Reclaiming Humanity: Black History and the Cultivation of Empathetic ImaginationAllison Dorsey20. Unity in the Struggle: Immigration and the South's Emerging Civil Rights ConsensusHana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, and Taylor Dow21. Story-Walking Toward Liveable FuturesJill Anderson and Maggie Loredo22. The Narrative Machine: Profits, Brains, and the Reshaping of Our Public SpacePireeni Sundaralingam23. Elements of a National Narrative on the Peopling of AmericaT. Alexander AleinikoffAcknowledgmentsContributor BiographiesIndex

The collection offers new ways of seeing, looking, and intersections that reinvigorate our understanding of what immigration means—politically, socially, economically, and nationally.—Alyssa Quintanilla, Society for US Intellectual History