Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America

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Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America

From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The majority of newcomers came from China and Japan, but there were also immigrants from India, the Philippines, Korea, Russia, Mexico, and over seventy other countries. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told for the first time in this landmark book, published to commemorate the immigration station's 100th anniversary.

Based on extensive new research and oral histories, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America examines the great diversity of immigration through Angel Island: Chinese "paper sons," Japanese picture brides, Korean refugee students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino workers, and many others. Together, their stories offer a more complete and complicated history of immigration to America than we have ever known.

Like its counterpart on Ellis Island, the immigration station on Angel Island was one of the country's main ports of entry for immigrants in the early twentieth century. But while Ellis Island was mainly a processing center for European immigrants, Angel Island was designed to detain and exclude immigrants from Asia. The immigrant experience on Angel Island-more than any other site-reveals how U.S. immigration policies and their hierarchical treatment of immigrants according to race, ethnicity, class, nationality, and gender played out in daily practices and decisions at the nation's borders with real consequences on immigrant lives and on the country itself.

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America is officially sponsored by the Angel Island Immigration Station.

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780199734085
Edition	1
Feature	history of Angel Island, immigration depot for Asians on West Coast
ISBN	0199734089
Label	Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press
MPN	100 black and white halftones
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	432
PartNumber	100 black and white halftones
PublicationDate	2010-08-27
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Studio	Oxford University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America

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