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In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the ‘great American melting pot’. But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travellers and maritime labourers.

Closing the Golden Door Asian Migration and the

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      Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
      Publication Date: 11/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781469665726, 978-1469665726
      ISBN10: 1469665727
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      Book Synopsis
      In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the ‘great American melting pot’. But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travellers and maritime labourers.

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