Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

The immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port...
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Author: Anna Pegler-Gordon
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Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island by Pegler-Gordon, Anna

Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

$119.62

Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

$119.62
Author: Anna Pegler-Gordon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The immigration station at New York's 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 Island's 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.



Author: Anna Pegler-Gordon
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/09/2021
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781469665696

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

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