The Chinese must go : immigration, deportation and violence in the 19th-century Pacific Northwest
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In 1882, the Chinese Restriction Act barred Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States, but implementing this policy proved impossible. This dissertation focuses primarily on the Pacific Northwest and examines the local attempt to enforce Chinese Restriction along the U.S.-Canadian border. When the federal government failed to stop illegal immigration along the border, white locals systematically expelled thousands of their Chinese neighbors. This study argues that the history of Chinese Exclusion cannot be understood without the history of anti-Chinese violence in the West and vice versa. The federal government's efforts to bar Chinese immigration starting with the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 were fundamentally connected to a grassroots movement to expel Chinese laborers in the mid-1880s. Not only did this vigilante movement affect the lives of the local Chinese, it also transformed American immigration policy and set in motion negotiations between the United States, Canada, and China. By combining a detailed social history of racial violence with a transnational political history of immigration policy, this dissertation presents a new history of the anti-Chinese movement and the rise of Chinese Exclusion.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Lew-Williams, Elizabeth Rose |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Primary advisor | White, Richard |
| Thesis advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard |
| Thesis advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Beth Lew-Williams. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Elizabeth Rose Lew-Williams
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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