Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Racism -- 1 Introduction: A Framework for the Immigration Experience -- 2 Pre-1965 Emigration: Leaving the Homeland for the United States -- 3 Post-1965 Emigration: Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy -- 4 Entry Into the United States and the Nation's Response to Asian Immigration -- 5 Asian Adjustment -- 6 Public Policies: Social Welfare, Housing, Education, and Criminal Justice -- 7 Public Policies: Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse -- 8 U.S.-Born Asian Americans -- 9 Implications, Directions, and Action Guidelines -- Epilogue: Author's Immigration Experience -- Notes -- References -- Index