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Forbidden workers : illegal Chinese immigrants and American labor Peter Kwong
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HD8081.C5 K85 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kwong, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Undocumented immigrants--United States.
- Undocumented immigrants.
- Trabajadores chinos en Estados Unidos.
- Foreign workers, Chinese--United States.
- Foreign workers, Chinese.
- Local Subjects:
- Trabajadores chinos en Estados Unidos.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 273 p. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, c1997.
- Contents:
- The pig trade: the contemporary version
- Going to America
- Snakeheads
- The limits of kinship networks
- Manufacturing ethnicity
- The exclusion of Chinese labor
- Ineffectual enforcement of immigration and labor law
- Waiting for organized labor
- The undocumented immigrant as part of American labor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 156584355X (hardcover)
- OCLC:
- 37211306
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