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Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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Japanese Immigrants and American Law
The Alien Land Laws and Other Issues
Since many Japanese immigrants focused on agriculture, California and other western states sought to discourage their presense by passing laws making it impossible for Japanese… read more1994 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1850-7 (Routledge)
Asian Indians, Filipinos, Other Asian Communities and the Law
This volume contains articles on other important Asian communities and their interaction with the American legal system. In the case of two of these groups… read more1994 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1851-4 (Routledge)
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The Mass Internment of Japanese Americans and the Quest for Legal Redress
In 1942 U.S. military authorities, invoking a presidential order and an Act of Congress, forcibly evacuated over 110,000 persons of Japnese ancestry, most of them… read more1994 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1866-8 (Routledge)
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Chinese Immigrants and American Law
The Chinese began to emigrate to the United States in significant numbers at the time of the California Gold Rush. By 1880 some 100,000 Chinese… read more1994 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1849-1 (Routledge)