Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin

The good immigrants how the yellow peril became the model minority / [Texte imprimé] : Madeline Y. Hsu - Princeton : Princeton University Press, cop. 2015 - 1 vol. (335 p.) ; 25 cm - Politics and society in twentieth-century America .

Bibliogr. p. [313]-324

Gateways and gates in American immigration history -- "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient": student exceptions to the racial bar against Chinese, 1872-1925 -- The China Institute in America: advocating for China through educational exchange, 1926-1937 -- "A pressing problem of interracial justice": repealing Chinese exclusion, 1937-1943 -- The wartime transformation of student visitors into refugee citizens, 1943-1955 -- "The best type of Chinese": aid refugee Chinese intellectuals and symbolic refugee relief, 1952-1960 -- "Economic and humanitarian": propaganda and the redemption of Chinese immigrants through refugee relief -- Symbiotic brain drains: immigration reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment act of 1965 -- Conclusion: the American marketplace of brains

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Chinese Americans--History Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity Racism--Political aspects--United States Political refugees--United States--History United States--Ethnic relations--History United States--Race relations--History United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History China--Emigration and immigration--History

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