Opening the Gates to Asia - A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian E...

U.S. immigration and naturalization laws have long been connected to American interests in the world. In no place has this been more true than in Asia. Much is known about America's history of Asian exclusion laws. But how did these laws end? Why and how did the United States begin opening its borders to Asians? > Opening the Gates to Asia describes how a transpacific movement of Asians and Americans successfully lobbied Congress to end the racial exclusion of Asians between 1943 and 1965. The repeal movement came to parallel, join forces with, and at times compete with the black civil rights movement. But, as this book argues, the main impetus for repeal lay in Asia. Drawing from archives in the United States, India, and the Philippines, it charts repeal as part of the larger history of U.S. empire-building and the rise of a new informal U.S. empire in Asia after World War II. By tracing the relationship between exclusion and empire, this book reveals the colonial...

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