ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Immigration Act Of 1924, Samuel Gompers, Asiatic Exclusion League
23 May 2018
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Chiese Woe September 24
I. Why were more Japanese women allowed?
• Page Law affected immigration
• Women made up a good percentage of the Japanese workforce.
• Japanese government was a major world power and was concerned with image
• US excluded Chinese entry, but negotiated with the number of Japanese.
II. Why become a picture bride?
• Hopes to become rich
• Curiosity about America
• Fear of a mother-in-law in Japan
• Sexual anxiety among those passed marriage age
• Dreams of romance in a foreign law
• Oeyig paret’s ishes
III. Husads reasos for usig the Piture Bride syste
• Most Japanese immigrant men were at the low end of the pay scale
• Many were past marrying age
• Anti-miscegenation laws
• Sought service at home and extra income
• Similar to tradition of use of intermediates to arrange marriages.
IV. Exclusion was unavoidable
• 97 Getlee’s Agreeet: restrited Japaese laor ut alloed oe ad
families. Signed in response because Japan was now a world power compared to Chia’s
weak stance.
• 1921 Ladies Agreement: ended the picture bride system.
V. 1924 Immigration Act
• National Origins Quota of 2%
o Based upon ethnic groups population in 1890
o Favored early Western European groups
o Discriminated later Eastern European groups
o Only for aliens eligible for citizenship
• Aliens ineligible for citizenship were now barred from applying for citizenship and
entering
o Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indians
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