Examines the ban on Chinese immigration from 1882 to 1943 and focuses on the anti-Chinese movement, border crossing, Chinese labor, families, immigration law, and deportation.

"The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In [this book], acclaimed historian Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Americans have been wary of almost every group of foreigners that has come to the United States. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed German immigrants for their 'strange...