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Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882. By Roger Daniels. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xii, 328 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8090-5343-8.)
Long acknowledged as an expert on the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, Roger Daniels has made considerable contributions to the general field of immigration history as well. In this volume, Daniels offers an in-depth examination and critique of American immigration from 1882 to the present. He takes 1882 as his starting point because that was the year the first Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, the first restrictive American immigration bill based on race and class, as it barred the entry of Chinese laborers for ten years. It was subsequently renewed a number of times...