Crafting an Immigrant Republic
Legal Foundations of American Immigration Policy
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This book offers a rigorous and incisive examination of the legal foundations of U.S. immigration law, situating them within the broader historical, political, and economic forces that have shaped the nation since its founding. Employing a critical legal framework, it traces the United States’ evolution from a republic formally structured around racial exclusion to a polity that has gradually dismantled many barriers based on race, religion, gender, and national origin—while retaining deep internal contradictions.
Rejecting conventional narratives, the book advances a capacious conception of immigration that encompasses voluntary, coerced, and imposed forms of human movement. This approach enables a unified analysis of Indigenous displacement, African enslavement, Asian exclusion, the criminalization of undocumented migration, and the expansion of deportation regimes as tools of state power. By highlighting immigration’s central role in shaping American demography, labor markets, and governance, the volume exposes the enduring paradox of a nation that oscillates between exclusion and inclusion while remaining a powerful global magnet for migrants.
CAF Dowlah is a visiting scholar at Fordham University School of Law and former Professor of Economics in the State and City University systems of New York, where he taught for three decades. He also served for several years as a policy advisor to the United Nations and World Bank. Dowlah holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southern California and an LLM from the University of Miami Law School. He has published more than 30 scholarly articles and authored over a dozen books, including Transformation of Global Prosperity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Foundations of Modern Slavery (2022), Cross-Border Labor Mobility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and Economics and Financial Sanctions of the United States (2025).
This book offers a rigorous and incisive examination of the legal foundations of U.S. immigration law, situating them within the broader historical, political, and economic forces that have shaped the nation since its founding. Employing a critical legal framework, it traces the United States’ evolution from a republic formally structured around racial exclusion to a polity that has gradually dismantled many barriers based on race, religion, gender, and national origin—while retaining deep internal contradictions.
Rejecting conventional narratives, the book advances a capacious conception of immigration that encompasses voluntary, coerced, and imposed forms of human movement. This approach enables a unified analysis of Indigenous displacement, African enslavement, Asian exclusion, the criminalization of undocumented migration, and the expansion of deportation regimes as tools of state power. By highlighting immigration’s central role in shaping American demography, labor markets, and governance, the volume exposes the enduring paradox of a nation that oscillates between exclusion and inclusion while remaining a powerful global magnet for migrants.
Analyzes the legal regimes that dictate population movement to the United States Explores how conquest, colonial expansion, slavery, and successive waves of immigration have been mediated through law Demonstrates how immigration law directly impacts economic, political, and national security in the US
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CAF Dowlah
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Crafting an Immigrant Republic Conquest, colonial expansion, slavery US immigration and international economics Economics and law The economics of immigration law in the United States Caf Dowlah