ASIAN AM 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Emilio Aguinaldo, Blood Test
8 Nov 2016
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Many created and sold slots allowing for future immigration. Slots created when american citizens of chinese descent reported a fictitious birth for every year that he remained in china. Citizenship meant being able to go back to china and able to come back. Only men could pass citizenship to children. Between 1900-1906 chinese immigration averaged from 12-145. After 1906 earthquake: 219 in 1910, 356 in 1915, 573 in 1920, 1050 in 1922, 1893 in 1924. From 1906-1924: about 10,000 chinese entered: were women, 1/20 were women in 19th century. Why engage in tedious process of slot immigration. Family unification: many men were lonely and craved family. Resist against unjust and inhumane immigration policy. Creation of national immigration facility in san francisco direct result of anti-chinese legislation. Opened in 1910: about 100,000 persons, mostly asians, spent time on island. Believed vast majority of 60,000 chinese between 1910-1940 passed through angel. Europeans passed through, evidence by records of segregated mess halls.
