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

ISBN: 0807845302

ISBN13: 9780807845301

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

(Part of the Studies in Legal History Series)

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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...

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