9/6/12 ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES LECTURE
open policy prior to 1875
* local governments, however, would not permit
- criminals
- free blacks
- those with certain religious views
- the poor
- unorthodox views/political beliefs
these beliefs generated some of the first laws to control immigration – 1st federal policy, issued in 1875, against chinese women
I. chinese immigration – 19th century
chinese diaspora
* prior to world war II, chinese immigration was limited predominantly…
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