A stone’s throw from Alcatraz sits Angel Island. For thirty years, this spot in San Francisco Bay held thousands of Asian ...

As a poet, playwright, performer, and educator, Genny Lim shines a light on the Asian American experience. But the native San ...

For the next 80 years, Chinese immigration was strictly limited, until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which was intended to remove racial discrimination. At Angel Island, immigration ...

In fact, many of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants who arrived at Angel Island were detained for anywhere from a few weeks to a few years while their applications were considered. “We believed that ...

Angel Island represents an important counterpoint to Ellis Island and the saga of American immigration history. Between 1910 and 1940, hopeful Chinese immigrants were detained at Angel Island where ...

At Angel Island, the foundation said the objective was to exclude many new arrivals, often under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Most of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants who arrived at Angel ...

The set carries the inscriptions that Chinese immigrants carved on the walls of Angel Island in real life. According to Peña, this design element is crucial to not only the telling of the story but in ...

Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay ... It remained in force in a barely milder form until 1943 (when 105 Chinese immigrants were allowed to enter the US annually) and the National Origins Formula ...

Alamy Visitors can still see Chinese characters carved into the walls of Angel Island's immigration and internment centre (Credit: Alamy) Throughout the day, Chris and I stopped to read the many ...

Chinese immigrants who migrated to Angel Island in the bay of San Francisco, California, took on new names after a 1906 earthquake destroyed birth records. NBC News' Richard Lui shares his family ...

Today, the cove is Angel Island's main arrival point ... which prohibited Chinese labourers from entering the US, many of these immigrants – including 85,000 people of Japanese descent ...