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Book SynopsisIlluminates a complex, distinctly transnational story that recasts the development of US immigration policies and institutions. Lauren Braun-Strumfels challenges existing ideas about the origins of remote control by paying particular attention to two programs supported by the Italian government in the 1890s.
Trade ReviewPartners in Gatekeeping is an important contribution to U.S. immigration historiography. Braun-Strumfel’s use of Italian sources offers a powerful sense of how immigration to the United States played on both sides of the Atlantic at the policy level, correcting the prevailing notion that restrictionism developed almost wholly in the context of anti-Asian sentiments." - Jennifer E. Brooks, author of
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama"
Partners in Gatekeeping relies on exciting, innovative, and ambitious research. The amount of never-before-used primary sources (at least in U.S. history) is breathtaking and one of the book’s many strengths. . . . With this evidentiary base, Braun-Strumfels clarified questions I have long had. She also raised questions that had not even occurred to me to ask, but were lightbulb moments as I read them." - Torrie Hester, associate professor of history, Saint Louis University
