About Greg Robinson
Greg Robinson is Professor of History at l’Université du Québec à Montréal and author of By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (2001), A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (2009), which was the recipient of the 2009 History Book Prize of the Association for Asian American Studies, and After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics (2012), which won the 2013 Caroline Bancroft History Prize. He also edited Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese America Journalism in the World War II Era (2012).
Within the field of Asian American studies, exclusion is a leitmotif that brings together collective histories of immigration restriction, detention, mass confinement, and citizenship denial. It expresses the organized forces, based in both state and private action, that have marginalized Asian Americans, and against which they have had to struggle, first to be permitted to enter the United States at all, and then to become accepted within the larger society.