Preface

1. Introduction

2. Antecedents

Part 1: English Roots, Colonial Controls, and Criminal Transportation

Part 2: The Alien and Sedition Acts—A "First Experiment" with Ideological Post-Entry Social Control Deportation

Part 3: Indian Removal, African-American Exclusion, Fugitive Slave Laws, and "Colonization"

3. From Chinese Exclusion to Post-Entry Social Control: The Early Formation of the Modern Deportation System

4. The Second Wave: Expansion and Refinement of Modern Deportation Law

5. The Third Wave: The "War on Crime," Internment, Political Deportations, and Mass Mexican Removals, 1930–1964

6. Modern Problems of Deportation Law: Discretion, Jurisdiction Stripping, and Retroactivity, 1965–2005

Daniel Kanstroom is Professor and Director of the Human Rights Program at Boston College Law School.