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Closing the Golden Door

Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

By: Anna Pegler-Gordon

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Closing the Golden Door

Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

By: Anna Pegler-Gordon

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.

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In Sight of America

Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy

By: Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon

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Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy

By: Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon

When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for European immigrants, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Including fascinating close visual analysis and detailed histories of immigrants in addition to the perspectives of officials, this richly illustrated book traces how visual regulations became central in the early development of U.S. immigration policy and in the introduction of racial immigration restrictions. In so doing, it provides the historical context for understanding more recent developments in immigration policy and, at the same time, sheds new light on the cultural history of American photography.

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Univ of California Press

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In Sight of America

Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy

By: Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon

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Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy

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Closing the Golden Door

Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

By: Anna Pegler-Gordon

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Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

By: Anna Pegler-Gordon

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