The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

“The Chinese entered America as migrants and were made into aliens, in law and society. Through a halting process of exclusion at the local, national, and international levels, the Chinese migrant became the quintessential alien in America by the turn of the twentieth century.”

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America, Lew-Williams, Beth, Book, 2018, p. 8.