Erika Lee, Judy Yung

Angel Island (eBook, PDF)

Immigrant Gateway to America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For many, this was the real gateway to the United States. For others, it was a prison and their final destination, before being sent home. In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung (both descendants of immigrants detained on the island) provide the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Drawing on extensive new research, including immigration records, oral histories, and inscriptions on the barrack walls, the authors produce a sweeping yet intensely personal history of Chinese "paper sons," Japanese picture brides, Korean students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and many others from around the world. Their experiences on Angel Island reveal how America's discriminatory immigration policies changed the lives of immigrants and transformed the nation. A place of heartrending history and breathtaking beauty, the Angel Island Immigration Station is a National Historic Landmark, and like Ellis Island, it is recognized as one of the most important sites where America's immigration history was made. This fascinating history is ultimately about America itself and its complicated relationship to immigration, a story that continues today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199750559
• Artikelnr.: 38138201

Autorenporträt

Erika Lee is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Judy Yung is Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island and Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter One: Guarding the Golden Gate: The Life and Business of the
Immigration Station
* Chapter Two: "One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws": Chinese
Immigrants in the Shadow of Exclusion
* Chapter Four: "Obstacles This Way, Blockades That Way": South Asian
Immigrants, U.S. Exclusion, and the Gadar Movement
* Chapter Five: "A People without a Country": Korean Refugee Students
and Picture Brides
* Chapter Six: In Search of Refuge, Freedom, and Opportunity: Russians,
Jews, and Mennonites in the Promised Land
* Chapter Seven: El Norte: Mexican Immigrants on Angel Island
* Chapter Eight: From "U.S. Nationals" to "Aliens": Filipino Migration
and Repatriation through Angel Island
* Chapter 9: Saving Angel Island
* Epilogue: The Legacy of Angel Island
* Appendix A
* Appendix B
* Appendix C
* Notes/ Bibliography
* Notes/ Bibliography