{"id":4226,"date":"2004-04-30T12:13:18","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T16:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:28","slug":"defining-immigration-through-immigration-policy-by-bill-ong-hing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/defining-immigration-through-immigration-policy-by-bill-ong-hing\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining America Through Immigration Policy by Bill Ong Hing [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/04\/Defining-America-through-Immigration-Policy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31516\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/04\/Defining-America-through-Immigration-Policy.jpg\" alt=\"Defining America through Immigration Policy\" width=\"332\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>\u201cWe are a nation of immigrants,\u201d Hing states in his introduction. And certainly that is a factual statement. However, since the United States was established more than two centuries ago, the government has rigidly defined who is eligible to be American and who is not. From the anti-Asian immigration laws that began in the 1800s to the current laws barring migration from Mexico, the U.S. government continues to define and limit who will be welcomed and who will be kept out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-04-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 30, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4158\" title=\"Defining Immigration Through Immigration Policy\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/defining-immigration-through-immigration-policy.jpg\" alt=\"Defining Immigration Through Immigration Policy\" width=\"128\" height=\"186\" \/>\u201cWe are a nation of immigrants,\u201d Hing states in his introduction. And certainly that is a factual statement. However, since the United States was established more than two centuries ago, the government has rigidly defined who is eligible to be American and who is not. From the anti-Asian immigration laws that began in the 1800s to the current laws barring migration from Mexico, the U.S. government continues to define and limit who will be welcomed and who will be kept out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-04-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 30, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,199,20,27,6535],"tags":[3598,4587,6608,22,4588,24,25,28,29],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-latinaox","category-nonfiction","category-pan-asian-pacific-american","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bill-ong-hing","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-defining-america-through-immigration-policy","tag-historical","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-race-racism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Defining America Through Immigration Policy by Bill Ong Hing [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/defining-immigration-through-immigration-policy-by-bill-ong-hing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Defining America Through Immigration Policy by Bill Ong Hing [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWe are a nation of immigrants,\u201d Hing states in his introduction. 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