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1. "Undesirable Aliens" "Prostitutes, contract laborers, the illiterate" and many
more were actual categories the US Congress placed
Asians in whom they deemed undesirable. If deemed
undesirable, they were sent back.
2. Immigration Act of Definition: To accommodate the large number of Eu-
1917 or Asiatic ropeans immigrating and stop the incoming Asians
Barred Zone who chose not to assimilate, Asians barred from fur-
ther immigration, excluding Filipinos (considered PI a
US colony).
3. Immigration Act of Definition: In order to "preserve the ideal of the Amer-
1924 (National Origin ican homogeneity," they gave a 2% quota for each
Quotas) ethnic groups that arrived in 1881-1890.
Significance: The US favored Europeans, since larger
quantities of them came compared to Asians at that
time.
4. Immigration Act of This act repealed national origins quotas; signed by
1965 or Hart-Cellar president Lyndon B. Johnson.
Act
5. Selective Immigra- In order immigrate into the after 1965, family mem-
tion: Family reunifica- bers in the US had to sponsor them. Many females
tion and Employment that came in were nurses; example of "brain drain."
preferences
6. "Brain Drain" US took the best and the brightest of Asia, in order to
better the economy, research institutions, and med-
ical schools.
7. Transnational/Diaspo- Asians encouraged other Asians to immigrate. This is
ra Communities and mainly why Chinatowns are found all over the US and
Social Networks the world.
8. Xenophobia, Scape- The fear of foreigners; blamed immigrants for taking
goating, and Nativist their jobs, acceptances into college, etcetera. This
Movements movement was based on the belief that enough im-
migrants have settled in US.; concerned about what
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