Closing the golden door : Asian migration and the hidden history of exclusion at Ellis Island /
"The immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the 'great American melting pot.' But as this...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Locating Ellis Island in Asian American history
- Enforcing Asian exclusion at Ellis Island
- America's chief deportation depot : expanding expulsion across New York
- Smugglers and stowaways : the dangerous journeys of human freight
- Asian sailors : shanghaied in Hoboken
- Japanese internees : New York has a concentration camp of its own
- The end of detention at Ellis Island.