US Immigration History, Laws, and Protestant Christian Responses: Fault Lines Among the FaithfulIn this chapter we look back at American history to understand patterns of immigration, immigration policymaking, and Protestant reactions, mainline and evangelical, drawing out similarities and distinctions for...
However, during the World War II, when China was an ally of the United States, the Exclusion laws were ended; a small number of Chinese were allowed to immigrate each year, and Chinese could become American citizens. In 1965, in a general revision of our immigration laws, many more ...
and allow these close kin to co-own property without joint ownership contracts. In addition, such societies often allow close kin a variety of automatic privileges such as sponsoring immigration visas or making medical decisions for one another; for those with whom one shares no close kin relation...
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When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.
1849:America’s first anti-immigrant political party, theKnow-Nothing Partyforms, as a backlash to the increasing number of German and Irish immigrants settling in the United States. 1875:Following the Civil War, some states passed their own immigration laws. In 1875 theSupreme Courtdeclares that...
World War Ierupted in 1914 after the assassination ofArchduke Franz Ferdinand, slowing the massive stream of late-19th-century European immigration to theU.S., and a militarydraftconscripting able-bodied American men was enacted in 1917. After the war ended, the flow of European immigration to...
While most anti-miscegenation laws primarily targeted interracial marriages between White people and Black people or White people and American Indians, theclimate of anti-Asian xenophobiathat defined the early decades of the 20th century meant that Asian Americans were also targeted. In this case, the...
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