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He argued labor patterns in Chinese immigrants that put them in a large amount of debt was a form of debt bondage. [5] The historiography of Chinese immigrants in the gold rush in California has since evolved to acknowledge immigration was voluntary, but the position that their labor was unfree is still strongly held by orthodox scholars.
Erika Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8078-5448-4; Matthew Frye Jacobson. (2000). Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917. Hill and Wang, ISBN 978-0-8090-1628-0
1848–1855: First mass wave of Chinese immigrants to the US for gold prospecting including in states such as California, North Dakota, and South Dakota. [25] The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) was a period of American history in which the most amount of gold seen at the time was discovered.
Chinese immigration to America in the 19th century is commonly referred to as the first wave of Chinese Americans, and are mainly Cantonese and Taishanese speaking people. About half or more of the Chinese ethnic people in the United States in the 1980s had roots in Taishan , Guangdong, a city in southern China near the major city of Guangzhou.
1935 Nye–Lae Bill grants citizenship to veterans of World War I, including those from "Barred Zones". [48] [49] 1943 Magnuson Act: Resumption of naturalization rights to Chinese Americans and limited immigration permitted from China. 1945 War Brides Act temporarily lifts the ban on Asian immigration for spouses and adopted children of service ...
Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday afternoon as the president approves a series of initiatives meant to tackle his key goal of curbing illegal immigration. The bill, which ...
Chinese for Affirmative Action, a decades-old California-based group that protects the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans, spoke with about 100 Chinese migrants on a recent trip to ...
In addition to his order on birthright citizenship, Trump has directed immigration arrests to be expanded to sensitive locations such as schools. That holds special implications in the border state of New Mexico, where U.S. citizenship was extended in 1848 to residents of Mexican and Spanish descent under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ...