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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Erika
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Subjects:
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.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
China > Emigration and immigration > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.