Immigration, Exclusion, and Taxation
Anti-Chinese Legislation in Gold Rush California
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4868680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Kanazawa (Carleton College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 779-805 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050705000288 |
| OpenAlex | W2099720943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 25 |
Historical scholarship on the politics of nineteenth-century Chinese immigration emphasizes the interests of labor and management in the genesis of congressional legislation in 1882 that limited Chinese immigration into the United States. This article examines early state attempts at the exclusion of Chinese workers after the first major wave of Chinese immigration during the California Gold Rush. Opposition to exclusion occurred in California in the early 1850s because Chinese immigrants were important taxpayers when both the state and localities were experiencing major fiscal difficulties. State attempts to legislate exclusion were successful only after financial conditions improved in the late 1850s
Chinese americans · Development economics · Economics · Gold rush · Immigration · Legislation · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science) · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |