and the 1882 Immigration Act denied entry to "convicts (except those convicted of political offences), lunatics, idiots, and persons likely to become public charges." 8 An 1891 law refused entry ...

reforms conditions and practices of shipping procedures in Macao and Hong Kong 1882 U.S. President Chester Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act, thus voiding 1868 Burlingame Treaty; Exclusion Act ...

Wing also lobbied against the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which only the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut did not ratify. A political cartoon from The San Francisco Wasp advocating for the ...

Sadly, these workers often met only racism and discrimination, which was capped by the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. For the next sixty years, immigration from Asia to the United States ...

Previous expulsions of migrant laborers have proven economically harmful—even for the people the policies were supposed to help.