ANTH 23 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Asian American Movement, Asian American Political Alliance, Immigration Act Of 1924
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Anth 23 lecture 8 asian americans and immigration. 1882: chinese exclusion act: excludes entire ethnic group from immigration for 1st time first applied to chinese, eventually encompasses all asians in 1924 immigration. 1924: immigration act: quotas for immigrants from europe based on american population from 1890 census, bans immigrants from asia, unlimited immigrants from western hemisphere. 1965: quota system -> annual limit of 20,000 immigrants per country: preferences for refugees, relatives of citizens, skilled workers. 1990: per country caps -> 700,000 immigrants a year, not including refugees: preference for family of citizens/employer-sponsored immigrants, immigrants from under-represented countries. Ah quin: christian, lived there, studied english in american missionary school in. Guangzhou, invited to work in san diego as labor broker for railroad: cut off cue working as cook in alaska. Cue: long braid men were forced to wear in china: children studied english and christianity at chinese community church.
