https://padlet.com/hth2712/cxt9j9pjzl3kzamr - What is your takeaway from chapter 6? en-us 2022-02-09 02:53:51 UTC 2025-12-16 18:13:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/hth2712/cxt9j9pjzl3kzamr/wish/2037091578 - The Chinese exclusion laws: barred all Chinese laborers from entry and prohibited Chinese from acquiring naturalized citizenship -> created illegal citizens. They was being considered as permanent foreigners
- Excluded from the polity and for the most part concerned to Chinatown ghettoes and an ethnic economy, Chinese Americans remained marginalized from the mainstream of society well into the twentieth century.
- Chinese Americans’ political and social standing in the United States rose and fell on multiple occasions from the 1930s to the 1960s, along with shifting American foreign policy and war interests.
- The Sino-Japanese War prompted widespread mobilization among Chinese Americans to support China. 
- In 1943 Congress repealed the Chinese exclusion laws as a wartime measure to counter Japanese propaganda that held up Chinese exclusion as evidence of American’s anti-Asiatic race policies
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- "Paper sons": people who were born in China illegally immigrated to the States by obtaining documents proving they were blood relatives to a Chinese American who had become a naturalized American citizen
- Chinese Americans’ political and social standing in the U.S rose and fell on multiple occasions from the 1930s to the 1960s
- "Chinese Exclusion Act"  
- Chinese Confession Program: "the line between voluntary confession and criminal proceedings is blurry"
+ the vast majority of confessors received legal status, but some were found ineligible for relief. 

--> confession legalized Chinese paper immigrants, but it did not bring them to social legitimacy. ]]> 2022-02-09 04:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/cxt9j9pjzl3kzamr/wish/2037091604 trankhanhduy972000 https://padlet.com/hth2712/cxt9j9pjzl3kzamr/wish/2037093397 - Meant to curb the influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States, particularly California, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization. President Chester A. Arthur signed it into law on May 6, 1882.
- The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred Chinese immigrants from naturalizing for 10 years and made Chinese immigrants ineligible for citizenship.
- The passage of the act represented the outcome of years of racial hostility and anti-immigrant agitation by white Americans.
- The 1882 exclusion act also placed new requirements on Chinese who had already entered the country. If they left the United States, they had to obtain certifications to re-enter. Congress, moreover, refused State and Federal courts the right to grant citizenship to Chinese resident aliens, although these courts could still deport them.
- Also, the non laborers had difficulties in entering the country as there was hardly a way for them to proof that they are not laborers. because the 1882 act defined excludables as “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.”
- For the fact that it was extended for the 10-year-period, it was first expired in 1892. When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. This extension, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation.]]> 2022-02-09 04:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/cxt9j9pjzl3kzamr/wish/2037093397 https://padlet.com/hth2712/cxt9j9pjzl3kzamr/wish/2037112132 - Chinese Illegal Immigration Crisis:
+ Even though the Chinese Exclusion Act was still in force, many Chinese people still tried to find ways to enter the U.S.
Some of which were: faked the papers of being the American citizen's brides/wives or being the sons/daughters of Chinese Americans living in the U.S., or explained that they were born in the U.S. but had to come back to China because their family lived there and now they wanted to come back to the US, etc.
+ The US Authority tried to solve the problems of Chinese illegal immigration; however, the process of dealing with the problems had a lot of biases, mainly because of their hatred towards communism.
+ ...
- Confession Program:
+ INS encouraged Chinese Americans who entered the US illegally to confess their case and others' in exchange for justifying their status or maybe even being granted citizenship if they'd been living in America for 7 years or served in the military for 90 days.
--> Caused chaos of Chinese Americans coming against each other?
--> Many Chinese Americans who held false citizenships were deported back to China
--> Created racialized perceptions that all Chinese immigrants are fraudulent and dangerous]]> 2022-02-09 04:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/cxt9j9pjzl3kzamr/wish/2037112132