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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 - Softcover

Lee, Erika

 
9780807854488: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807854484 ISBN 13: 9780807854488
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America’s Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a “gatekeeping nation.” Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources — including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters — Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

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Erika Lee is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807854484
ISBN 13 
9780807854488
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
348
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