Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration LawUniv of North Carolina Press, 1995 - 338 pages Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles be |
Contents
From Counting to Sifting Immigrants | 1 |
Judicial Justice 18911905 | 33 |
Contesting Exclusion THE CHINESE AND THE ADMINISTRATORS | 37 |
Captives of Law JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE CHINESE EXCLUSION LAWS | 69 |
The Eclipse of judicial Justice | 94 |
Executive Justice 19051924 | 117 |
Drawing the Sieve Tighter THE RISE OF NATIVISM AND ADMINISTRATIVE POWER | 121 |
Bureaucratic Tyranny THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION AND ITS CRITICS | 139 |
A Fair though Summary Hearing THE SHAPING OF ADMINISTRATIVE DUE PROCESS | 179 |
Its Own Keeper PROCEDURAL REFORM IN THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION | 217 |
Immigration Law in American Legal Culture | 245 |
Methodology | 253 |
NOTES | 255 |
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