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A History of Chinese Immigration Into Arizona Territory: by R. Tintle. A case history regarding the positive reception of Chinese immigrants during the nineteenth centuryarchived from the original; Timeline of Asian Pacific Americans and Immigration Lawarchived from the original)
Asian American history is the history of ethnic and racial groups in the United States who are of Asian descent. The term " Asian American " was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese , Japanese , and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes.
Japanese Americans have been returning to their ancestorial homeland for years as a form of return migration. [1] With a history of being racially discriminated against, the anti-immigration actions the United States government forced onto Japan, and the eventual internment of Japanese Americans (immigrants and citizens alike), return migration was often seen as a better alternative.
Shortly after the American Civil War, some states started to pass their own immigration laws, which prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility. [50] In 1875, the nation passed its first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875 , also known as the Asian Exclusion Act.
Asian immigrants were excluded from naturalization but not from living in the United States. There were also significant restrictions on some Asians at the state level; in California, for example, non-citizen Asians were not allowed to own land. The first federal statute restricting immigration was the Page Act, passed in 1875. It barred ...
The 1882 Act was the first in American history to place broad restrictions on immigration. [ 7 ] For American presidents and congressmen addressing the question of Chinese exclusion, the challenge was to balance domestic attitudes and politics, which dictated an anti-Chinese policy, while maintaining good diplomatic relations with China, where ...
He is the first Asian-American head coach in any of the four major North American sports leagues. [89] [90] 2010: Rich Cho becomes the first Asian-American general manager of an NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers. [91] 2019: Jeremy Lin becomes the first Asian-American NBA Champion. [92]
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