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Sto caricando le informazioni... At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943di Erika Lee
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)325.251073Social sciences Political Science International migration and colonization Emigration and Refugees Asian Emigration Chinese EmigrationClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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This was published in 2003, though, so parallels to anti-brown people sentiment post- 9/11 are only addressed in the epilogue. The cyclical nature of history is very apparent throughout the rest of the book, though, so if anyone's been following the 2017 travel ban attempts I do wonder what the 21st century equivalent of a paper son will be (as of July 2017, the SC added having a 'bonafide relationship' to a family member as a requirement to avoid the ban which is eerily similar to the family tie loophole during exclusion).
Might post more comprehensive review later. ( )