Good Immigrants (eBook)

How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

Madeline Y. Hsu (Autor)

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2015
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6637-3 (ISBN)

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Madeline Y. Hsu is associate professor of history and past director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home and the coedited anthology Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture.

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Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites-intellectuals, businessmen, and students-who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline Hsu looks at how the model minority characteristics of many Asian Americans resulted from US policies that screened for those with the highest credentials in the most employable fields, enhancing American economic competitiveness.The earliest US immigration restrictions targeted Chinese people but exempted students as well as individuals who might extend America's influence in China. Western-educated Chinese such as Madame Chiang Kai-shek became symbols of the US impact on China, even as they patriotically advocated for China's modernization. World War II and the rise of communism transformed Chinese students abroad into refugees, and the Cold War magnified the importance of their talent and training. As a result, Congress legislated piecemeal legal measures to enable Chinese of good standing with professional skills to become citizens. Pressures mounted to reform American discriminatory immigration laws, culminating with the 1965 Immigration Act.Filled with narratives featuring such renowned Chinese immigrants as I. M. Pei, The Good Immigrants examines the shifts in immigration laws and perceptions of cultural traits that enabled Asians to remain in the United States as exemplary, productive Americans.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: 1965 Immigration Act • Adviser • Aid • Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals • America • American dream • americans • anti-Chinese movement • Asian Americans • Asian exclusion • biracial family • Career • Chiang Kai-shek • China • China Institute • China Institute of America • china lobby • China Medical Board • China–United States relations • Chinese • Chinese Americans • Chinese civil war • Chinese Culture • Chinese Educational Mission • Chinese elites • Chinese emigration • Chinese Exclusion Act • chinese exclusion laws • Chinese Government • Chinese migration • Chinese People • Chinese students • CIA • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • Civil Rights • Cold War • Cold War propaganda • Columbia University • communism • Confucianism • Congress • credential • Criticism • C.Y. Lee • Department of State • Deportation • Discrimination • Economic Development • economic nationalism • Education • educational exchange programs • Employment • Equal Opportunity • Evelyn Hu-DeHart • Exclusion • Family reunification • Flower Drum Song • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Foreign Relations • Funding • Gold rush • HartЃeller Act 1965 • Harvard University • Hong Kong • How to Cook and Eat in Chinese • Human capital flight • humanitarian outreach • Hu Shih • Illegal Immigration • Immigration • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 • immigration controls • immigration exemption • Immigration Law • Immigration Laws • Immigration Policy • Immigration Reform • immigration restrictions • Immigration studies • I. M. Pei • I.M. Pei • India • Institute for International Education • Institute of Pacific Relations • intellectual Chinese • International education • International Relations • International Student • international war • Jiang Menglin • John F. Kennedy • Knowledge Worker • Kuomintang • laborer • Latin America • Legislation • Liberalization • May Fourth Movement • Meng Zhi • Missionary • Missionary (LDS Church) • model minority • Modernity • Nationalist Chinese • nationalist government • Nationality • national security • Naturalization • New Class • newspaper • of education • Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs • On China • Overseas Chinese • Peking University • Persecution • political agendas • Princeton University Press • Publication • Qian Xuesen • racial inequality • Racial segregation • Racism • Refugee • refugee relief • Refugee Relief Act 1953 • religious groups • repeal • Restriction • Scholarship • Sino-American collaboration • Sinophobia • social burdens • Society of the United States • Soong Mei-ling • South Korea • State Department • student affairs • Student number • Student Volunteer Movement • Sun Yat-sen • Taiwan • The New York Times • Trainee • Tsinghua University • Unemployment • United States • United States Department of State • U.S. citizens • U.S. Immigration • U.S. Information Agency • U.S. workforce • Walter Judd (politician) • White House • World War II • yellow peril • Yuen Ren Chao • Yung Kuai • Yung Wing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6637-5 / 1400866375
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6637-3 / 9781400866373