Laws Harsh As Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law

by Lucy E. Salyer

Book Overview

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials, and the lower federal courts that took place around the turn of the century established fundamental principles that continue to dominate immigration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807845302
• ISBN13: 9780807845301
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"