ISBN:
1469653389
,
9781469653389
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 264 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hong, Jane H Opening the gates to Asia
DDC:
305.895/073
Keywords:
Asians Social conditions 20th century
;
Asian Americans Social conditions 20th century
;
Asian Americans ; Social conditions
;
Asians ; Social conditions
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Emigration and immigration ; Government policy
;
HISTORY / Asia / General
;
History
;
Asia Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
History
;
United States Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
Government policy
;
History
;
Asia
;
United States
Abstract:
"Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration. The mid-twentieth century repeal of Asian exclusion, Hong shows, was part of the price of America's postwar empire in Asia. The demands of U.S. empire-building during an era of decolonization created new opportunities for advocates from both the U.S. and Asia to lobby U.S. Congress for repeal. Drawing from sources in the United States, India, and the Philippines, Opening the Gates to Asia charts a movement more than twenty years in the making. Positioning repeal at the intersection of U.S. civil rights struggles and Asian decolonization, Hong raises thorny questions about the meanings of nation, independence, and citizenship on the global stage."--
Abstract:
Laying the groundwork for a movement: the World War II campaign to repeal Chinese exclusion -- Entangling immigration and independence: Indians and Indian Americans in the campaign for exclusion repeal -- Manila prepares for the future: Filipina/o campaigns for U.S. citizenship on the eve of Philippine independence -- Testing the limits of postwar reform: Japanese Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and the McCarran-Walter act of 1952 -- Making repeal meaningful: Asian immigration campaigns in the civil rights era.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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