Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Japanese Migration to North America: A Transnational Approach Examining Mexico, the United States, and Canada

Parra, Carolina

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Japanese Migration to North America: A Transnational Approach Examining Mexico, the United States, and Canada

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Date

2014

Authors

Parra, Carolina

Advisor

Krippner, James
Smith, Paul J., 1947-

Department

Haverford College. Department of History

Type

Thesis

Language

eng

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Abstract

Japanese migration to North America was concentrated on the Pacific Coast and spread throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico, among other countries. Due to the widespread migration of Japanese to Pacific coast and the broader influx of Asian immigration in North America, a negative environment for Japanese immigrants was created. A growing anti-Asian sentiment was prominent and influenced the creation of immigration laws that prevented Asian immigration and forced Japanese immigrants to look elsewhere for a country to migrate to. This project will look at the history of Japanese relations with Mexico, the United States and Canada. It will also explore the role of Japanese migration as a cause of North America's anti-Asian sentiment in the nineteenth and twentieth century. North America's anti-Asian sentiment was a region-wide trend that allows us to understand the impact Japanese migration had on Mexico, the United States, and Canada's immigration policy. I will use Mexico, the United States, and Canada as case studies to reveal the connection between the countries and the formation of anti-Asian laws in the United States in 1907, Canada In 1908 and Mexico in 1909.