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Not Fit to Stay

Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion

By (author) Sarah Isabel Wallace
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, Canada
Published: 15th Dec 2016
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 23mm
Weight: 554g
ISBN-10: 0774832185
ISBN-13: 9780774832182
Barcode No: 9780774832182
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In the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, Not Fit to Stay reveals that public leaders - including physicians, union leaders, civil servants, journalists, and politicians - latched on to unsubstantiated public health concerns to justify the exclusion of South Asians from Canada and the United States.

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Not Fit to Stay acquaints modern readers with the "hookworm strategy" of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace's research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws ... Not Fit To Stay is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *