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Laws harsh as tigers : Chinese immigrants and the shaping of modern immigration law / Lucy E. Salyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salyer, Lucy E., author.
- Series:
- Studies in Legal History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization--History.
- United States.
- Administrative discretion--United States--History.
- Administrative discretion.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States--History.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Chinese--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.
- Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (677 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Laws Harsh As Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
- Contents:
- Cover Page; LAWS HARSH AS TIGERS; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; TABLES & ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 From Counting to Sifting Immigrants; CHAPTER 2 Contesting Exclusion; CHAPTER 3 Captives of Law; CHAPTER 4 The Eclipse of Judicial Justice; PART II Executive Justice, 1905-1924; CHAPTER 5 Drawing the Sieve Tighter; CHAPTER 6 Bureaucratic Tyranny; CHAPTER 7 A Fair though Summary Hearing; CHAPTER 8 Its Own Keeper; EPILOGUE: Immigration Law in American Legal Culture; NOTES; Bibliography; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890869258
- 9780807864319
- 0807864315
- OCLC:
- 854968382
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