The Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Immigration History Research Center are pleased to hold a joint online event on the Page Act. The panelists include Charlotte Brooks, Hardeep Dhillon, Beth Lew-Williams, and Eva Payne. The discussion will be moderated by Naoko Wake.

Targeted largely at Chinese migrants, especially women, the Page Act was the federal government’s first direct attempt to limit Asian immigration to the United States. This event uses the anniversary as an opportunity to discuss the significance of the Page Act for US immigration history, Asian American history, and more broadly the politics of race, gender, and class in US history based on the most recent scholarship.