At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Erika (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Colección:Online access: HeinOnLine HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice.
Temas:
1800-1999
Chinese Americans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Chinese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Immigrants > United States > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > United States > History > 20th century.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Chinese Americans > Social conditions
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Immigrants
Race relations
Immigratie.
Chinezen.
Kines-amerikaner.
Sociala förhållanden.
Rasrelationer.
a Invandrare.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
China > Emigration and immigration > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
China
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • PART I: CLOSING THE GATES: The Chinese are coming: how can we stop them? : Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping
  • The keepers of the gate: U.S. immigration officials and Chinese exclusion
  • PART II: AT AMERICA'S GATES: Exclusion Acts: Race, class, gender, and citizenship in the enforcement of the exclusion laws
  • One hundred kinds of oppressive laws: the Chinese response to American exclusion
  • PART III: CRACKS IN THE GATE: Enforcing the borders: Chinese exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders
  • The crooked path: Chinese illegal immigration and its consequences
  • PART IV: THE CONSEQUENCES AND LEGACIES OF EXCLUSION: In the shadow of exclusion: The impact of exclusion on the Chinese in America
  • EPILOGUE: Echoes of exclusion in the late Twentieth Century
  • AFTERWORD: Following September 11, 2001.

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