Angel Island : immigrant gateway to America / Erika Lee & Judy Yung.

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"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...

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Main Author: Lee, Erika
Other Authors: Yung, Judy
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) > History.
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) > Emigration and immigration.
Physical Description:xxv, 394 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Guarding the Golden Gate: the life and business of the immigration station
  • "One hundred kinds of oppressive laws": Chinese immigrants in the shadow of exclusion
  • "Agony, anguish, and anxiety": Japanese immigrants on Angel Island
  • "Obstacles this way, blockades that way": South Asian immigrants, U.S. exclusion, and the gadar movement
  • "A people without a country": Korean refugee students and picture brides
  • In search of freedom and opportunity: Russians and Jews in the promised land
  • "El norte": Mexican immigrants on Angel Island
  • From "U.S. nationals" to "aliens": Filipino migration and repatriation through Angel Island
  • Saving Angel Island
  • Epilogue: the legacy of Angel Island.