Introduction : Americans at the gate -- "The age of the uprooted man" : the United States and refugees, 1900-1952 -- "A mystic maze of enforcement" : the refugee relief program -- "From Hungary, new Americans" : the United States and Hungarian refugees -- "Half a loaf" : the failure of refugee policy and law reform, 1957-1965 -- "They are proud people" : the United States and refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 -- "The soul of our sense of nationhood" : human rights and refugees in the 1970s -- Reform and retrenchment : the Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan administration's refugee policies -- Epilogue : the United States and refugees after the Cold War.