Dr. Erika Lee, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota, explores the history of Asian migration and exclusion as a central component in the making of the Pacific World. Focusing on the campaigns to exclude Chinese and Japanese immigrants in the U.S., Canada, the Hawaiian Kingdom,
Mexico, and Australia, Lee suggests that a shared history of migration, racism, imperialism, and exclusionary immigration policies linked the American West to the larger Pacific World. Through this lens, the history of the American West becomes inextricably connected to transnational American and world history.