CGS 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Amerasian, Miscegenation
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Cgs 112 article notes historical reconfigurations: delineating asian women as/not. Chinese prostitution and immigration exclusion: most chinese women in us in mid-1800s were prostitutes (119) gender imbalance in sf required acceptance of prostitution. Federal government should be in charge of immigration: page law: 1875; immigration restrictions against convicts, prostitutes; if you sneak in these people, it"s a felony. Saying young boys had been seduced by chinese prostitutes and caught syphilis. Some problems with those not excluded getting their wives and children to come over, but it was allowed in court (127) exclusion act applied to deport people who were suspected of immigrating illegally. ""i(cid:373)(cid:373)igratio(cid:374) offi(cid:272)ials a(cid:374)d judges (cid:449)ho (cid:449)ished to deport prostitutes got rid of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) classifying them as "manual laborers"" (127) "while the right to nationality through territorial birth affirms the national fantasy of. Indochina, afghanistan, arabia, east indies: before, unrestricted immigration of indians since they were "aryan"