ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Japanese In Hawaii, Sansei, Edo Period

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Worthy Ken

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Push factors: population growth, government policy: establish themselves as international presence, national prestige, promoting migration to acquire knowledge, rural dispossessio(cid:374) & (cid:373)igratio(cid:374): far(cid:373)ers (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t afford to pa(cid:455) ta(cid:454)es, so the(cid:455) moved into cities and pursued us. Pull factors: wage labor opportunities: initially contract labor in hawaii, capitalists wanted migrants pitting against each other to decrease wages, network-based opportunities. Economic background: farmers with ethnic pride and responsibility for homeland. Education: educated as a result of meiji restoration period. Issei: born japanese (cid:862)alie(cid:374)s i(cid:374)eligi(cid:271)le for (cid:272)itize(cid:374)ship(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1011)(cid:1004) naturalizatio(cid:374) a(cid:272)t(cid:895: nisei: 1st generation born in us us citizens, sansei: 2nd generation born in us, yonsei: 3rd generation born in us, nikkei: 4th generation born in us. Settlement patterns: 1940 55% urban/45% rural. Policy influenced by power of japanese government. Pre-(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:1011): japa(cid:374)ese = (cid:862)alie(cid:374)s i(cid:374)eligi(cid:271)le for (cid:272)itize(cid:374)ship(cid:863) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1006)(cid:1005): ladies" agree(cid:373)e(cid:374)t restrict picture brides, stopping women from coming. 1924: immigration act barred i(cid:373)(cid:373)igratio(cid:374) of alie(cid:374)s" i(cid:374)eligi(cid:271)le for (cid:272)itize(cid:374)ship.