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Immigrant Gateway to America
Oxford University Press, USA
September 2010
On Sale: August 27, 2010
432 pages
ISBN: 0199734089
EAN: 9780199734085
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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