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- Title
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION POLICY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
- Authors
HIGHAM, JOHN
- Abstract
The article focuses on the history of immigration policy in the U.S. It mentions the confusion and discord in policy-making due to the conflicting nature of the immigration restriction with American values, the need for defensive and regulatory action to preserve the goods of the country's traditional values, and the social and economic needs of immigrants. It discusses the anti-Chinese movement in California during the Gold Rush period, 1860-1880, efforts of President Rutherford B. Hayes to suspend the entry of Chinese labor in the country by passing the act of 1882, and the immigration law passed by the Congress in 1882, giving executive authority over immigration to the Secretary of the Treasury.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; IMMIGRATION law; IMMIGRATION policy; IMMIGRANTS; HAYES, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893; CHINESE Exclusion Act of 1882; SOCIAL values; UNITED States. Congress
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1956, Vol 21, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190500