Immigration at the Golden Gate : passenger ships, exclusion, and Angel Island / Robert Eric Barde.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barde, Robert Eric, 1947-
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Subjects:
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History > 20th century.
Asians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 20th century.
Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) > History.
Asia > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Exclusion, detention, and Angel Island
  • An alleged wife
  • Before Angel Island
  • Moving migrants across the Pacific
  • Asiatic steerage
  • The life and death of the China mail
  • The Nippon Maru : a career in the immigration trade
  • Keepers of the Golden Gate
  • The great immigrant smuggling scandal
  • Mr. Section 6
  • Epilogue.