{"product_id":"not-fit-to-stay-9780774832199","title":"Not Fit to Stay","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot Fit to Stay reveals how officials used panic about public health concerns as a basis for excluding early twentieth-century South Asian immigrants from entering Canada and the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot Fit to Stay\u003c\/i\u003e acquaints modern readers with the “hookworm strategy” of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace’s research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws … \u003ci\u003eNot Fit To Stay\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 “Leprosy and Plague Riot in Their Blood”: The Germination of a Thesis, 1906\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 “The Public Health Must Prevail”: Enforcing Exclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Amoebic and Social Parasites, 1910–13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 South Asians, Public Health, and Eugenic Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Franchise Denied\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404934488407,"sku":"9780774832199","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774832199.jpg?v=1730488108","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/not-fit-to-stay-9780774832199","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}