Closing the golden door : Asian migration and the hidden history of exclusion at Ellis Island / Anna Pegler-Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pegler-Gordon, Anna, 1968- author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asians--Migrations--United States--History--20th century.

Asians.

Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Noncitizen detention centers--United States--History--20th century.

Noncitizen detention centers.

Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.

Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

The University of North Carolina Press

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations, Map, Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Locating Ellis Island in Asian American History

1. Enforcing Asian Exclusion at Ellis Island

2. America's Chief Deportation Depot: Expanding Expulsion across New York

3. Smugglers and Stowaways: The Dangerous Journeys of Human Freight

4. Asian Sailors: Shanghaied in Hoboken

5. Japanese Internees: New York Has a Concentration Camp of Its Own

Conclusion: The End of Detention at Ellis Island

Appendix of Tables

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 29, 2023).

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908570-2-6

1-4696-6573-5

979-88-908570-3-3

1-4696-6574-3

OCLC:

1281651345