Closing the golden door : Asian migration and the hidden history of exclusion at Ellis Island /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pegler-Gordon, Anna, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) > History.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. et N.J.) > Histoire.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
1900-1999
Asians > Migrations > United States > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > United States > History > 20th century.
Noncitizen detention centers > United States > History > 20th century.
Centres de détention (Immigration) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Noncitizen detention centers
Asians > Migrations
Immigrants
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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