At America's Gates Quotes

“Edith Abbott, who authored one of the first comprehensive studies of immigration, argued that “the study of European immigration should not be complicated for the student by confusing it with the very different problems of Chinese and Japanese immigration.”
― Erika Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

“After the Chinese were excluded, calls to restrict or exclude other immigrants followed quickly, and the rhetoric and strategy of these later campaigns drew important lessons from the anti-Chinese movement.”
― Erika Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

“Federal immigration laws became the means to achieve restrictionists’ goals and reflected and reinforced the existing racial hierarchy in the country, leaving America’s gates open to some and closed to others.”
― Erika Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943