[PDF] Closing The Golden Door eBook

Author : Anna Pegler-Gordon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1469665735

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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 : David M. Reimers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231076814

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This work updates an established American textbook on immigration and ethnic history, demonstrating the post-war shift from European to Third World immigrants. Extensive revisions include a discussion of undocumented immigration and the Simpson-Rodino Bill. All the important events of the last five years, especially the 1990 Immigration Act, are presented. The author examines the changes in refugee status and highlights the new wave of East European and Soviet immigrants to the USA.

Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2005-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1466806850

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As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past. The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamt of consequences, and this pattern has been rarely deviated from since. Immigration policy in Daniels' skilled hands shows Americans at their best and worst, from the nativist violence that forced Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan to the generous refugee policies adopted after World War Two and throughout the Cold War. And in a conclusion drawn from today's headlines, Daniels makes clear how far ignorance, partisan politics, and unintended consequences have overtaken immigration policy during the current administration's War on Terror. Irreverent, deeply informed, and authoritative, Guarding the Golden Door presents an unforgettable interpretation of modern American history.

Author : Thomas Kessner
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :

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For the past two decades American scholars have been engaged in an intense examination of social mobility in American life. At the profoundest level, these studies examine the general notion that American society has been historically an open system which offered great opportunity for advancement to its poor and newcomers.

Author : Susan F. Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110890145X

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Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Massachusetts welcomed those who shared the religious views of the founders but excluded those whose beliefs challenged prevailing orthodoxy. Pennsylvania valued pluralism, becoming the most diverse colony in religion, language, and culture. A fourth, anti-immigration model also emerged during the colonial period, and was often fueled by populist leaders who stoked fears about newcomers. Arguing that the Pennsylvania model has best served the country, this book makes key recommendations for future immigration reform. Given the highly controversial nature of immigration in the United States, this second edition – updated to analyze policy changes in the Obama and Trump administrations – provides valuable insights for academics and policymakers.

Author : Tahira Amir Khan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9810970773

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A true story of a magical, mystical journey across Singapore, Pakistan, Malaysia & Bali. It is filled with thought-provoking theories, puzzles and paradoxes for the unraveling of the Keys to the Golden Door of the New World. Confined within the old world of the current and a craving for the new. Out of sheer interest, Tahira began studying the topic of planetary civilizations, when halfway through something else took over. Expeditious experiences of a divine nature to relay a greater message for her and all of Mankind. Written with a fluid literary style, Tahira allows readers to observe a narrative tapestry of technology, mathematics, geometry, philosophy, psychology, sociology, literature and spirituality. So enjoy the stories, empower yourself with the useful theories, get access to mind-altering information that can only take you forward. Very magical as it unfolds. Harjit Kaur, Senior Lecturer A refreshing account of living a spiritual journey. Julia Fraser, Film Producer

Author : Ali Master
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 164279287X

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In this powerful and inspiring memoir, a Pakistani immigrant shares his story of finding new freedoms and a new faith in America. It’s easy to talk about freedom. But unless someone has lived in a world that suffocates freedom, it’s difficult to appreciate the liberty found in America. This is the true story of a Pakistani Muslim who immigrates to the United States for college and discovers five transformational freedoms along the way: the freedom to fail and start over, to love, to choose one’s faith, to be an entrepreneur, and to self-govern. Contrasting these precious freedoms with the life he lived in Pakistan, Ali’s story reveals that God is the true source of liberty as He works in people’s lives to bring about redemption. A call to value and preserve American freedoms, Beyond the Golden Door is also an invitation for readers to consider ultimate freedom in Jesus Christ.

Author : Alex Nowrasteh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108477631

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An empirical investigation into the impact of immigration on institutions and prosperity.

Author : Robert Eric Barde
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : History
ISBN :

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Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being welcomed, were denied liberties and even entrance to the United States.