Examining the Effects of Exclusion Policies on Immigrant Assimilation Efforts during the Chinese Exclusion Era (1882-1943)

• In Event: Immigration and Identity

Brief Overview

This paper examines the effect of exclusionary policies on immigration assimilation efforts using evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Era, which was the first immigration law to exclude a single group based on race and class.

Author

• Jae Eun Kim, University of Rochester