Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles of the so-called age of restriction--from 1924 to 1965--paved the way for the changes to come. The essays examine how geopolitics, civil rights, perceptions...