AuthorLee, Erika
TitleAngel Island : immigrant gateway to America / Erika Lee and Judy Yung
Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
Descript xxv, 394 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Guarding the Golden Gate: the life and business of the immigration station -- "One hundred kinds of oppressive laws": Chinese immigrants in the shadow of exclusion -- "Agony, anguish, and anxiety": Japanese immigrants on Angel Island -- "Obstacles this way, blockades that way": South Asian immigrants, U.S. exclusion, and the Gadar movement -- "A people without a country": Korean refugee students and picture brides -- In search of freedom and opportunity: Russians and Jews in the promised land -- "El norte": Mexican immigrants on Angel Island -- From "U.S. nationals" to "aliens": Filipino migration and repatriation through Angel Island -- Saving Angel Island


SUBJECT

  1. Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) -- History
  2. San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Emigration and immigration
  3. United States -- Emigration and immigration

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