In 1882, the
Chinese Exclusion Act became the first federal law barring immigration based on race and class; it also prevented Chinese immigrants already here from becoming citizens.
While early scholars of nativism, such as John Higham, ignored the Chinese experience, later ones have focused primarily on California and the passage of the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
This book explores Chinese immigration and Canadian immigration policy, including Chinese migrant railway workers, the head tax and the
Chinese Exclusion Act. Readers learn about life in Canada for Chinese immigrants today and their many contributions to Canadian life.
Whether it is through slavery, manifest destiny, the exclusion of indigenous students from land-grant universities, the
Chinese Exclusion Act or the redlining of people of color from home ownership, the white supremacist racial hierarchy in the U.S.
Meanwhile, we passed the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 and 1887 to limit foreigners according to their ethnic background.
citizen, that pathway was doubly foreclosed to him by the Naturalization Act of 1870 and the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
It discusses the contested politics and geopolitics that gave rise to the Chinese Restriction Act and how compromises at the national level affected immigration enforcement at the local level, showing how AmericansAE views on Chinese migration were determined by the scale in which they viewed their world; the outbreak of violence that followed the failure of restriction; and how local racial violence became an international crisis and created a new federal immigration policy, the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1888.
Several years ago while conducting research at the National Archives at San Bruno, I had the opportunity to examine the case files of Chinese immigrant children who attempted to enter the United States under the
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943).
This Law is also considered as the precursor of the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.For the first time in the American history, the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banded a specific ethnic group, Chinese in this case, to enter into the United States.
It was used in protests against the Muslim ban and in support of refugees, in remembrance of Japanese internment during World War II and recalling the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.