TY - CHAP AB - Although a quintessentially intermestic issue, immigration policy is usually analyzed as a one-level (domestic or international) policy question, and existing theories essentially talk past each other while failing to explain changes over time. I develop a domestic-international model of migration policy-making which explores the ability of Congress, the president, and migrant-sending states to influence outcomes. I examine the U.S.-Mexican Bracero Program (1942–1964), and I find that my model strongly outperforms existing one-level theories of migration policy-making. I conclude by exploring the current immigration policy environment, and I argue that it too is best understood as a two-level process. VL - 16 SN - 978-1-84950-222-1, 978-0-76231-036-4/0198-8719 DO - 10.1016/S0198-8719(03)16005-X UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0198-8719(03)16005-X AU - Rosenblum Marc R. ED - Diane E. Davis PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - The intermestic politics of immigration policy: Lessons from the Bracero Program T2 - Political Power and Social Theory T3 - Political Power and Social Theory PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 139 EP - 182 Y2 - 2024/04/27 ER -