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Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island Anna Pegler-Gordon
Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island
Anna Pegler-Gordon
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 Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travellers and maritime labourers.
336 pages, 1 map, 8 tables
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 9 de dezembro de 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469665726 |
| Editoras | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Páginas | 344 |
| Dimensões | 155 × 233 × 23 mm · 705 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |