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 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Series:Immigration law & policy in the U.S.
UNC Press law publications.
Civil rights and social justice.
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Enforcing the borders : Chinese exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders
  • The crooked path : Chinese illegal immigration and its consequences
  • 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.