Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.
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The ‘Save Chinatown’ movement began 50 years ago with the fight over the expansion of the Vine Street Expressway.
A gloomier economic outlook in China and tightening state control have combined with the influence of social media in encouraging migration.
Chinatowns once served as gateways for early Chinese immigrants. But the suburbs are the center of cultural and commercial life for new immigrants and later generations.
The Chinese Exclusion Act and other discriminatory measures had profound and lasting impacts on Chinese women and families in Canada.
Author Ava Chin, a 5th generation New Yorker, traces the roots of today’s high rates of anti-Asian violence back to 19th century U.S. labour and immigration laws.
A virtual walking tour traces the route of a white mob that attacked Asian communities of Vancouver in 1907. Learning about past contexts may shed light on the recent surge in anti-Asian violence.
In a territory landowners wanted to become a state, white immigrants were less threatening to American nativists on the mainland.
The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
Children can be especially vulnerable to being wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement actions.
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