ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the United States has used Asian immigrants as a source of cheap labor as well as a force to bring stability in the face of political, economic, and ideological crisis occurring in capitalism’s development. I am primarily taking Chinese immigrants as an example, although other groups of Asian immigrants have confronted similar problems. As the first Asian immigrant laborers to the United States, the Chinese have faced economic exploitation as well as social and legal exclusion from society, and the historical story of Chinese immigrants elucidates a central part of the problem that I am seeking to address in this book.
