1. Gendered Authority and Abuses of Power in US Immigration Detention in the Early Twentieth Century • Lauren D. Catterson, University of Toronto.

2. Federal Immigration Policy and State Development during the "Open Door" Era • David Ericson, Cleveland State University.

3. Making a New Kind of Migrant: Ethnicity, Gender, and the War Brides Act of 1945 • Michael B Limmer, University of Missouri - Columbia.

4. Paper Trails of Immigration and Discrimination: Evidence from Chinese Exclusion • Hannah Postel, Stanford University.

5. Birth Rights and Wrongs: Paradoxical Reproductive Abuse and the Maintenance of Migrant Intervenability • Carlo Sariego, Yale University.