ASIA AM 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Byrsonima Crassifolia, Pink-Collar Worker, Human Capital Flight

• School: UCLA
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: ASIA AM 20
• Professor: Welty, L.

Document Summary

How has us immigration policy shaped asian american communities especially in post. More class diversity, but socioeconomically bimodal (some doing well, some doing poorly) Why did immigration from asia change the way that it did. Family reuni cation (not as exible now, more like one-step fam) and skilled laborers. Post 1965--filipino and chinese had large pools to draw on considering family reuni cation and their numbers jumped. Bifurcation in wwii into good and bad orientals (chinese and. In 1950s, japan becomes a sort of ally, us is essentially governing japan for some years. 1949--china is communist and then seen as bad. Prc--chiang kai shek and nationalists retreat to taiwan after communist. Red army defeats them: mao zedong: communist leader of prc, had popular support from. Free enterprise, private property/private ownership of the means of production, produce goods and sell for maximum pro ts domestically and abroad. After wwii, us government became interested in industrial and social peace to gain stability.