Chinese Immigration 1870

The United States has had tension with Asian immigrants since the first wave of migration in the 1840’s, and in 1882 the United States declared a Chinese Exclusion which was to keep all Chinese from migrating into the United States. For the Chinese already in the U.S this created worry and tension. With the Chinese people no longer being welcome the freedom for the Chinese inside which was already not much was even more condensed. The little equality that they had was taken away and they were excluded, and looked down upon everywhere they went. They had trouble living and socially because of the prejudice they were facing. An example of the Chinese struggle before the exclusion act would be the Chinese Lynching that took place in 1871. In Los Angeles a mob captured men and in this case a 12 year old boy and hung them all at a Spanish hacienda because of the citizens strong discrimination against

In China, since the reform and opening-up, there have been two waves of immigration in the last century late 70s and early 90s. With the advent of a new century, China’s economy has come into the phase of rapid development and its informatization construction has been developed at a high speed. Surprisingly, at that time, there is growing the third emigration which is a larger scale one. Among these immigrants, the professional elite and the proportion of affluent people increases year by year.

Since its founding, the United States has attracted immigrants from all over the world and consists of a variety of different cultures. Immigration has had an enormous impact on American society and economy and shaped the country remarkably.

In 1965, the last legal barrier to Chinese immigrants fell with the signing of a new law that ended immigration quotas based on race. In the 19th and early 20th centuries the story of the Chinese in America was primarily a legal drama, played out on the nation’s borders and in courts. After the new immigration law went into effect, it became a personal story told by one individual and by one family at a time.

The Chinese immigrant is one of the largest group in the United States. Looking back the history of U.S., most people believe that the first Chinese immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush period. Also, the Chinese community is one of the largest and oldest ethnic group of Asian Americans. Some researchers consider the history of ethnic Chinese in Southern California relates to three periods. In my opinion, I would like to say that there are four major waves which the first wave begins in the 19th century, the second wave occurs in the 1940s to 1980s, the third wave happens during the 1980s, and the last wave arises in a recent decade year.

Before the war, Chinese Americans were known as non-citizen immigrants who aren’t allow to go back to visit China. The male immigrants can’t to bring their wives over from China and they weren't allowed to marry whites legally. In fact any white American woman that married a non-citizen Chinese man automatically lost her citizenship under US law. This left Chinese communities across the United States empty of children, filled with aging bachelors, and inexorably dying away. Ironically the renewal of the Chinese American community came about because of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 that destroyed immigration and birth records across the city. The US Supreme Court in Wong Kim Ark v. United States in 1898 had affirmed citizenship

In 1880, the Hayes Administration authorized a well known U.S. diplomat named James B. Angell. His job was to negotiate and control a new treaty they were planning with China. The treaty was called the Angell Treaty, which permitted the United States to restrict or prohibit Chinese immigration. In 1882, the Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which eliminated the process of immigration of any Chinese laborers, whether it were skilled workers or unskilled workers for 10 years. The Act also required every Chinese person going on a voyage in or out of the country to carry a certificate identifying his or her occupation as a laborer, scholar, diplomat, or merchant. This Act was the first in the whole American history to place broad restrictions

After the first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States in the early 1840s during the California Gold Rush, many Chinese people continued to travel across the Pacific, escaping poor conditions in China with hopes and ambitions for a better life in America. Many more Chinese immigrants began arriving into the 1860s on the Pacific coast for work in other areas such as the railroad industry. The immigrants noticed an increasing demand for their labor because of their readiness to work for low wages. Many of those who arrived did not plan to stay long, and therefore there was no push for their naturalization. The immigrants left a country with thousands of years of a “decaying feudal system,” corruption, a growing

Immigration was a hotbed political topic during the late 1800s and 1900s. Each limiting immigration policy against a certain group enacted correlated with a spike of racism from white America. There is a direct correlation between racism and limiting immigration policies. The most striking example is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which effectively froze Chinese immigration for ten years. Furthermore, it blocked current Chinese resident aliens from becoming US citizens because State and Federal courts were forbidden from granting citizenship.

The United States is a nation built on a strong foundation of immigrants. People have come to America from many parts of the world, for a variety of reasons. Some have been pushed out of their homeland because of poverty and oppresion. Others have been pulled towards a new life in America, due to opportunities to improve their future. In 1840-1950 Swedish Immigrants were pushed out of their country or wanted to leave because of the way things were there.

The government in the earlier years did not accept the situation that there was so many Chinese immigrants working and arriving in the U.S. illegally. In 1882 the U.S. congress passed The Chinese Exclusion Act, since they feared of overpopulation (Waxman, Sarah.). What this did was close its door to Chinese laborers, those who offended could face imprisonment or deportation. Also any Chinese immigrants already in the U.S. were denied American citizenship. The act stopped the Chinese community from growing, so the Chinese had to figure out a way to keep their business going. Soon after the Chinese Exclusion Act, there was Geary Act. The Geary Act basically prohibit the coming of Chinese immigrants into the U.S. This let Chinese laborer to go

When thousands of Chinese migrated to California after the gold rush the presence caused concern and debate from other Californians. This discussion, popularly called the “Chinese Question,” featured in many of the contemporary accounts of the time. In the American Memory Project’s “California: As I Saw It” online collection, which preserves books written in California from 1849-1900, this topic is debated, especially in conjunction with the Chinese Exclusion Act. The nine authors selected offer varying analyses on Chinese discrimination and this culminating act. Some give racist explanations, but the majority point towards the perceived economic competition between

The United States’ relationship with immigration fluctuated a lot over the years. Nonetheless, one can observe how towards the 19th century, the government began to restrict the influx of immigrants it was received each year. The first official measure that triggered drastic change in American perception of immigration and of immigrants themselves was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed on May 6th, 1882, and it was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States, especially to a specific race/ethnicity. One of the narratives to justify this measure was that Chinese workers cause economic ills and declining wages, even if they only represented less than a percent of the population. However, the Congress still passed that act to satisfy popular worker demand. This essay will discuss the ideological and institutional consequences of the Chinese Exclusion Act, such as gatekeeping, creating a framework to racialize other races, a nativist ideology and how it shaped immigration laws.

In the mid 19th century, America was viewed as a hotspot for freedom and wealth. When the noise of the gold rush flooded the world, immigrants started to see America more appetizing than ever. The Chinese saw America as a place to have a fresh start and as a place of refuge because of it’s generosity, so they immigrated to the west in great numbers. There was a large Chinese population in Virginia and all along the Pacific coast. Writers Mark Twain and Maxine Hong Kingston both wrote in great detail about the Chinese Immigrants. They went into detail about the immigrants and how they came over and why. Although Twain and Kingston both wrote about the immigrants in a positive light, Twain was sympathetic of the immigrants and Kingston focused more on their image and her ancestors.

In the 1800s, people in china faced a great deal of misfortune. The 1840s through the 1860s, the population was hit with economic recession and the Opium War with Great Britain. The country also had to tackle overpopulation and environmental issues such as droughts. Due to the plethora of hardships, the people of China were eager for a “way out”.