Acknowledgments Introduction Pulling Back the Curtain: Unauthorized European Migrations to the United States Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang Part I Making and Unmaking Unauthorized Entries A Pathway to Citizenship: Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief during the Great Depression S. Deborah Kang Privileges of Illegality? Italian Seaman Deserters and Adjustment of Status in the Twentieth Century Danielle Battisti Irish Immigrants in the 1980s: Immigration Narratives, Whiteness, and Diversity Carly Goodman Part II Reimagining the European Migrant Time Difference: Pregnancy and Deportability in Early Twentieth-Century United States Randa Tawil Between Arabic, English, and Spanish: Syrian Muslim Migrations from Mexico to the Midwest in the Early Twentieth Century Ashley Johnson Bavery Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Polish Undocumented Home Care Workers in Late Twentieth-Century Chicago Mary Patrice Erdmans and Polina Ermoshkina Part III Global Productions of Illegality The Maritime Origins of the Deportation Nation: Viapolitics of Unauthorized European Migration to the United States, 1819-1914 Torsten Feys Finding the "Most Desirable" Refugee: Russian Refugees in Constantinople and American Humanitarian Migration Networks, 1920-1923 E. Kyle Romero Polish Vacationers : American Dream or Nightmare? Joanna Wojdon Contributors Index.