Japan Immigrant’s Situation After the Establishment Of Immigration Law

After the Immigration Law established in 1952, there are quite amount of Japanese chose to go to Hawaii and earn money. This type of Japanese at that time have some common points: they are likely to be young people from 20~30; they were not born in rich or famous families, normally in farmer’s families; however they were passion and ambitious young men, in that case they could let their parents or local celebrities to be their guarantor and pay their travel expense. After they went to America they tried very hard to fit in this society and been a good citizen. Although it was harder for Japanese Immigrants because after WW2 the estrangement between them and Native American is more serious than any other countries’ immigrants, they still achieve better success in economic, social and political status. Also they worked very hard in order to save every penny and pay back their families. At that period the money that Japanese immigrants mailed back to their hometown is far more than the average salary the local Japanese earned.  This phenomenon was very common in many part of Japan at that time.

However, the conflict between Japanese immigrant and local Hawaii residents still existed.  The local residents might not satisfied with all this immigrant came in and seize their jobs and profits, they in many ways tried to suppress them. On the other hand Japanese immigrants wanted to have a equal social status and rights as those residents. The conflict was so irreconcilable that the Japanese government had to step out that time and sent some of works home to protect them. Even though those immigrants were far over the sea the Japanese government still care about them much. The Japanese government acted very outstanding in this aspect than other countries at that time.

--- By Zhaoya Zhang

Thomas Sowell, “Ethnic America”, Perseus Books Group, 1983.

“Early Japanese Immigrants to Hawaii”, Photograph, hawaiihistory.org. Web. 9 Feb 2013.

Immigration Law’s Effect on Asian Immigrant’s Job

The issue of Immigration Laws in 1952 had a lot effect on Asian employees. Before the Law has been established, most of the Asian immigrants in United States are doing the job like waiter, dustman, or other low skills required job. These kind of jobs often associated with low pay, low social status and low education level. At 1940, the research showed that whether on mainland of United States or on Hawaii, the number of Asian immigrants doing technical work was less than half of the number of original residents. At the same period in California, only 3% of Chinese immigrants were doing the job required high skills, which the percentage of white people was 8%. After the Law issued in 1952, the situation changed quite much.  The Immigration Law gave out the opportunities to those who had special skills that was highly needed by American company or society, and allows them to enter the United States as the identity of new immigrants.  The structure of Asian immigrants changed a lot at that time.  Take Chinese immigrants as an example, the percentage of Chinese people doing technical job in California had risen to 6% compare to 10 years ago. In 1960, 16.6% of Chinese male immigrants were doing job as senior executives, when female immigrants were 5.8%.  Also 19.7% of male immigrants were hired as skilled personnel while the data for woman is 17.9%.  In addition, the number of Asian immigrants doing low-level job had decreased compare to the situation 10 years ago. However those basic jobs were still in high percentage of all job types. Even though, the establishment of Immigration Law still brought some positive affects on Asian immigrants. First, the higher-level job could bring Asian immigrants higher income. Second, it can also reveal that the education level of Asian immigrants had improved. Last but not least, with the higher income and higher education level the Asian immigrants could gain better political and social position. This is the foundation for Asian immigrants to gain more their rights in the future development.

--- By Zhaoya Zhang

Dr. Dai Chaowu, “The Influence of 1952 America Immigration Law Towards Asian Immigrants and Asian Community.” Journal of Northeast Normal University: Philosophy and Social Science Edition (1997) 59-66

The undocumented immigrants from China

From the CNN website, we can see that Asians, more than Latinos, are largest group of new arrive in U.S, especially for China. There were 280,000 undocumented immigrants from China. As I know from my parents told me, some people came to U.S as a visitor, and they will stay for a long time as an undocumented immigrants, maybe they will work as a illegally worker to earn the minimum salary, and then they go back to China to tell the U.S. Embassy that how the Chinese government persecuted them, and asked the Embassy to help them immigrate as Political asylum. But in fact, is really Chinese government persecuted them? Nobody knows except them.

As the second generation of this Asian American, some of them thinks they are “typical American”, they grow up in American, speak well English and little Chinese from their parents, we call them ABC. It’s a new kind of culture that we can have this combination between China and U.S.

I hope Asian American will connect the two countries to developing faster.

--- By Ran He

CNN Library. “Fast Facts: Immigration in the United States.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 28 Jan. 2013. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/28/fast-facts-immigration-in-the-united-states/?iref=allsearch

Why a lot of Asian wants to immigrate to America?

In 1878, “15 Passenger Bill”: Congress restricted Chinese immigration by limiting the number of Chinese passengers permitted on any ship coming to the U.S. to 15.  It’s means the end of “freedom immigration for Asian to America.

Why a lot of Asian wants to immigrate to America?

Freedom is the answer that pops into my mind first. America is the country that we can have amount of time and space to think, to meditate, to get inspiration. University is often a gateway to residency, which means that most of Asian American has high education background. So according to the news I saw online, Asian American immigration to Untied State seems like a positive energy to this country.  As the population of Asian American more and more, the work opportunity for Native American must be less than before which means the competitions are stiff. I think it’s a way to encourage Native American to work harder to earn more chance to get a better life. But in the other way, government won’t allow too many Asian to immigrate, they don’t want put too many pressure to their citizens. So the government changes the immigration laws to Asian. They raise the requirement and set several ways to immigrate.

Is their have any difference between male and female about the immigration? Since I study the WGSST, I always have this question about any problem. The answer is Yes!

There is a double standard about the immigration laws. According to the information I search online there was a case that shows difference between male and female about the immigration laws. Associate judge and lawyer both think that there are differences between genders for immigration of Federal Law.   According to Federal Law, singer father born up before 1968, and the time for living in United State must more the 10 years, include 5 years after 14 years old, who satisfy upon conditions, his child could get the chance for immigration. But there is total difference about female single parents. If the single mom lives in United State for 1 year, her child could get the chance for immigration. Upon this information, Maybe Federal think single mom is harder than the single father. I think it’s shows much respect to female nor discrimination this time.

--- By Ran He

Chunyan Lu. China News Website. 09 Sep. 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2013

http://www.chinanews.com/hr/2012/09-14/4184379.shtml

Lisa. Huaien Kindvisa. 12 Nov. 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2013

http://www.kindvisa.com/usa/yiminbaishitong/3067.html

Immigrant Laws on Asian Indians

Up to 2012, the population of Asian Americans is over 18 million and almost 5.8% of the U.S. population ("Asian American", n.d.). However, earlier in the 19^th century, there is only few Asian Americans in the U.S. due to the strictly immigrant laws (Purkayastha 186). For example, by 1917, “a new ban on Asian migration was in effect; no person of Asian origin, irrespective of his or her geographic residence were allowed to move to the US” (Purkayastha 186). However, most conditions in the 1965 laws were encouraged Asian Indian migration (Purkayastha 186). Between 1965 to the

1980s, the only economic migrants who were allowed to migrate because of employer preferences were those who fit the contemporary definition of highly skilled migrants. Here the highly-skilled labor is specifically for doctors, engineers and scientists. Due to the primarily male preserves for such area, the immigrant laws are much more strictly for Asian Indian women (Purkayastha 186). I believe the reason is that under such laws, if Indian women want to immigrate into the US, they have to rely on men by the marriage. Many of them may be high-educated and they could bring many benefits to the society of America. However, by the immigrant laws, their education or the skills not relate to those specific areas are worthless. Why we could not get a job based the skills we have, but instead, we have to live in this county rely on other people. Also, the problems are not just these. If a Indian woman comes to the America along with her husband, the only work she could do is the housewife. Because she cannot work outside due to her visa status although she might could get a job and earn money back home like her husband. For me, these immigrant laws are strictly on Asian Indians and unfair to those Indian women.

 --- By Xixiao Hu

Wikipedia contributors. "Asian American." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 Feb. 2013. Web. 10 Feb. 2013.

Purkayastha, Bandana. "Skilled migration and cumulative disadvantage: the case of highly qualified Asian Indian immigrant women in the US."Geoforum 36.2 (2005), 181-196.

Immigrant Laws' Effects On the Asian Community

After watching the video reported by Sandra Endo, “CNN: Immigration law worries Asians”, I searched more news about the immigration law talked about in the video. The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act was signed on April 23, 2010 by Governor of Arizona. This act is asking aliens to register with the U.S. government and they should bring the registration documents with them all times ("Arizona SB 1070", n.d.). If the violation of this fact occurred, it would be a federal misdeanor crime ("Arizona SB 1070", n.d.). For me, there is a controversial issue addressed from this law, reasonable suspicion of immigrant status. How could the government decide which people should be checked? If it is based on the “reasonable suspicion”, what is the rule for it, simply as the color of the skin? From the video, I could see that there are negative effects on Asian community in Arizona by this law. A resident who has blood relationship of Chinese and Spanish, said that he’s already feeling to be targeted in (Sandra Endo). He is a legal resident of America; however, he should be checked because he looks like an alien. This immigrant law would become the white supremacy if the reasonable suspicion of immigrant status is based on the color of skin. Although there are people who are illegal to stay in the U.S. from Asian; however, I believe that most of people in the Asian community are legal residents. Then it is not fair to suspect and check their immigrant status. Also, on the other hand, it seems that if people are illegal immigrants but with white skin, they might not be checked by the government. This unfair phenomenon proved that this immigrant law is part of white supremacy.

-- By Xixiao Hu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmWY63udrKU Sandra Endo. “CNN: Immigration law worries Asians” Youtube. 29 July 2010. Web. 6 Feb. 2013.

Wikipedia contributors. "Arizona SB 1070." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 6 Feb. 2013. Web. 6 Feb. 2013.
“Protesters Denounce SB 1070.” Photograph. Webshots. Campus Progress, 4 June. 2010. Web. 6 Feb. 2013.