Opening the Gates to AsiaHong Jane H.
Opening the Gates to AsiaHong Jane H. U.S. Much is known about America's long history of barring Asians from immigrating and from U.S. immigration and naturalization laws tracked shifting power…
Specifikacia Opening the Gates to AsiaHong Jane H.
Opening the Gates to AsiaHong Jane H.
U.S. Much is known about America's long history of barring Asians from immigrating and from U.S. immigration and naturalization laws tracked shifting power dynamics in the Pacific as the United States emerged as a preeminent world power during World War II and the Cold War.
Hong argues that the mid-twentieth century movement to repeal Asian exclusion was part of U.S. citizenship, but how did Asian exclusion in the United States end? Jane H. empire-building and the rise of an informal U.S.
empire in postwar Asia. Drawing on archives in the United States, India, and the Philippines, Hong explores how a transpacific movement of Asian, Asian American, and white American advocates lobbied U.S. Congress for repeal.
For many Asians in the U.S., repeal offered a means to survival, while for Asian colonial leaders, repeal laws also served state- and nation-building projects in Asia.