Artists Protest Immigration Policy: A Brief History
Deborah Faye Lawrence Game of the Occupied States
Artists Protest Immigration Policies : A Brief History powerpoint
Selected Facts on Immigration History from powerpoint “Artists Protest Immigration Policies” presented by Susan Noyes Platt, Ph.D.
John Jay School of Criminal Justice, April 11, 2018
For the complete slide show with art work see link above
1875 Page Law and 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
First Federal Regulations on Immigration
Tool to define “American” began exclusions by race, gender, and class
“Legalized restriction, exclusion and deportation of immigrants considered to be threats to the US for first time. “Established inspection, documentation
Regulation in hands of immigration officials, not the courts
Ellis Island Near New York City 1892 – 1954 mainly processing immigration
8 million immigrants passed through: one third of current US population traces their ancestry to Ellis Island
1924 immigration restrictions began by quota
to restrict Southern and Eastern Europeans
Banned Arabs, Asians, Africans
Angel Island Immigration Station
opened in 1910 closed in 1940
Angel Island processed mainly Chinese,
but also POWs and those being deported
1882 laws and 1924 allowed only Chinese merchants with an affidavit from a white man saying they had never done manual labor. 90 percent of Chinese immigrants had false identities
Led to “paper marriages” “paper children” “paper husbands”
World War II Executive Order 9066
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. It set in motion the forced removal and imprisonment of all people of Japanese ancestry (citizens and non-citizens alike) living on or near the West Coast.
Hours after Dec 7 bombing of Pearl Harbor, FBI rounded up Japanese community leaders and froze their assets
Total internments in California, Washington, Oregon 117,000 people including 17,000 children under 10, as well as several thousand elderly and handicapped. 70,000 were citizens
1965 Immigration Act applied quotas to Latin America for the first time leading to undocumented migration of workers from the South
USA Patriot Act 2001
“Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.” permitted long term detention of non citizens without a hearing
A Few Books on Immigration and Migration: A Selected List by Susan Noyes Platt
History
Erika Lee and Judy Yung, Angel Island Immigrant Gateway to America, Oxford University Press 2005
New York Historical Society, Chinese American, Exclusion/Inclusion, Scala 2014
Anzaldua, Gloria, Borderlands, La Frontera, Aunt Lute Books, 1987
Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire, A History of Latinos in America, Penguin Books, 2001,2011
Contemporary Conditions
David Bacon Illegal People, Beacon Press, 2008
The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the US Mexico Border, University of California, 2004
The Right to Stay Home, How US Labor Policy Drives Mexican Migration, University of California, 2014
In the Fields of the North , University of California, 2017
Peg Brown A Land of Hard Knocks, Peer Publishing, 2014
Roberto G. Gonzales Lives in Limbo Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, University of California Press, 2016,
Kari Lydersen Out of the Sea and Into the Fire, Latin American -U.S. Immigration in the Global Age, Common Courage Press, 2005
Valerie Luiselli Tell Me How it Ends, An Essay in Forty Questions, Coffee House Press, 2017
Sonia Nazario Enrique’s Journey, Random House, 2014
Margaret Regan Detained and Deported, Beacon Press, 2015
Luis H. Zayas Forgotten Citizens Oxford University Press, 2015
Poetry
Raúl Sánchez All our Brown-Skinned Angels, Moon Path Press, 2013
John Martinez, Mi Sol, privately printed, 2016 ( in Spanish)
Ramón Ledesma Migrant Sun, Floricanto Press, 2014
Ramón Ledesma Migrant Earth, Migrant Sun Press, 2013
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sueño, Wings Press, 2013
Art
Johns, Barbara, The Hope of Another Spring Takuichi Fujii,Artist and Wartime Witness, University of Washington Press, 2017.
T.J. Demos, The Migrant Image, The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis, Duke University Press, 2013
Migration Now, a Portfolio, published by JustSeeds and CultureStrike, a set of prints addressing immigration. Online at migrationnow.com
Fiction
Isabelle Allende In the Midst of Winter Atria Books, 2018
