The Good Immigrants : How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority /

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Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites-intellectuals, businessmen, and students-who gained entrance becaus...

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Autor principal: Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Political refugees > United States > History.
Racism > Political aspects > United States.
Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Chinese Americans > History.
Immigrants.
Chinese.
Americanization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Americanisation.
Immigrants > United States.
Chinese > United States.
China > Emigration and immigration > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
United States > Ethnic relations > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gateways and gates in American immigration history
  • "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient": student exceptions to the racial bar against Chinese, 1872-1925
  • The China Institute in America: advocating for China through educational exchange, 1926-1937
  • "A pressing problem of interracial justice": repealing Chinese exclusion, 1937-1943
  • The wartime transformation of student visitors into refugee citizens, 1943-1955
  • "The best type of Chinese": aid refugee Chinese intellectuals and symbolic refugee relief, 1952-1960
  • "Economic and humanitarian": propaganda and the redemption of Chinese immigrants through refugee relief
  • Symbiotic brain drains: immigration reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment act of 1965
  • Conclusion: the American marketplace of brains.

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