Japanese and Korean Immigration
This group's migration to America was heavily influenced by the Japanese colonization of their home country
Korea
Name a social condition faced by South Asian immigrants following their immigration to North America
Extreme poverty, cultural alienation, and racial discrimination
Who narrated "America is in the heart; A personal Story"?
Carlos Bulosan
Women who went to America with arranged marriages and photos of their husbands.
Picture Brides
This region of South Asia saw the most migrants to North America in the first decades of the 1900s
Punjab(i)
How were workers treated?
unfairly, some companies tricked their workers and they would not receive any paychecks, worked in harsh working conditions, low wages, they owed companies money but what they owed was unknown.
This law banned aliens "ineligible to citizenship", targeting all Asian populations
Alien Land Law
The status that allowed Filipinos to migrate to the U.S. without being subject to immigration protocols
“U.S. Nationals”
Why didn't Carlos settle for a long-term job?
Low wages and the harsh working conditions.
The agreement that limited Japanese immigration, with certain exceptions like family members
A Term that refers to the attachments + associations built over “racial and ethnic lines”, which helped immigrants create community in a foreign and hostile land.
Stranger Intimacy
What was Carlos's American Dream? Why did he want to be in America?
"With a sudden surge of joy, I knew that I must find a home in this new land.” (pg 99)
"find peace in some corner of life." (pg 101)
to look for jobs
This Japanese restoration attempted to modernize Japan into a stronger country
Meiji Restoration
The percentage of South Asian immigrants that were rejected from entry into the U.S., following the "Hindu Invasion"
55%
When was his novel published?
1943 (according to google)