AAS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Honshu, Immigration Act Of 1924, Meiji Restoration
Document Summary
Sucheng chan : asian immigration linked to broader colonial, imperial, and capitalist expression. Social and economic unrest: opium war (1839-1842) and treaty of nanking, taiping rebellion (1850-1864) Mostly a male population, single and married; transnational families. Model for how us viewed and treated other asian immigrants. Opening of japan from seclusion in 1853. Meiji restoration: economic impact, national conscription law (meaning, everyone between a certain decided age window must serve an amount of time in the military, mandatory; even in peace time) Labor recruitment to hawaii, later to mainland us. Japan was seen as a new rising world superpower, so they had protection from the government. Families came over, rather than single men, seen as threat. (cid:1005)9(cid:1004)7 ge(cid:374)tle(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s agree(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: negotiation to stop issuing passports to laborers, essentially the same as chinese situation, but this time, japan agreed to this. Linked to japanese immigrants because of colonialism: treated as japanese subjects. Less than 10,000 immigrants within those three years.
