Closing the Golden Door (eBook)

Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

Anna Pegler-Gordon (Autor)

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2021
344 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6573-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The immigration station at New Yorks 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 fresh examination of Ellis Islands history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and even within the United States. And from 1924 to 1954, the station functioned as a detention camp and deportation center for a range of people deemed undesirable.Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States. In chronicling the circumstances of those who passed through or were detained at Ellis Island, she shows that Asian exclusion was both larger in scope and more limited in force than has been previously recognized.

Autor

Anna Pegler-Gordon is a professor in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 18 halftones, 1 map, 8 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Asian American community in New York • Asian exclusion at Ellis Island • Asian migration from Europe and the Caribbean • Asian sailors in New York • Chinese exclusion at Ellis Island • deportation policy enforcement at Ellis Island • Ellis Island, 1892-1954 • Ellis Island compared with Angel Island • immigrant detention at Ellis Island • immigration officials • immigration policy enforcement at Ellis Island • Impacts of Cold War on Chinese Americans • Impacts of World War II on Japanese Americans • Japanese American community in New York • Japanese American internment • Japanese internment at Ellis Island • New York Chinatown • racism in US immigration policy • smuggling of Asian immigrants
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6573-5 / 1469665735
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6573-3 / 9781469665733