Eliot Dickinson, visiting assistant professor of Political Science at Hope College, reviews A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. The book offers the history of immigration to the United States from the colonial period to the present. Based on this history, the author argues that immigration policy has played a major role in nation building for the United States.

Read the book review at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00079.x.