Name/Title
The Golden Door: The Irony of Our Immigration PolicyEntry/Object ID
FIC-L-00361Description
An attack on the McCarran-Walter Act (IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT OF 1952) that reformed immigration policies that had crippled U.S. international relations, however, retaining national origins quotas as the core principle for controlling immigration even though it granted immigration quotas to all countries, including newly independent former colonies in Asia and Africa, and completely removed the racial restrictions on citizenship by naturalization. Despite this symbolically significant gesture to racial egalitarianism, 85 percent of immigration quotas were allocated to western and northern Europeans while Asian countries had comparatively tiny quotas, with Japan’s being the largest at 185. Asians remained the only population tracked by race, with their overall immigration capped at 2,000 per year by the Asian-Pacific Triangle restriction. Hardcover, 244 pagesDimensions
Height
9-1/4 inWidth
5-3/4 inDepth
1-1/8 inBook Details
Author
J. Campbell BruceDate Published
1954Publication Language
EnglishLCCN
53-9712