Historians have long assumed that Immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese Immigration in the 1880s.
In this groundbreaking work, Hidetaka Hirota reinterprets the Origins of Immigration restriction in the United States, especially dep.
Studies of European Immigration and government control on the East Coast have, meanwhile, focused on Ellis Island, which opened in 1892.
Historians have long assumed that Immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese Immigration in the 1880s