Racial Ethnic Profiling On Immigration to the United States in The 1920s

Document Type:Research Paper

Subject Area:Politics

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The matter of racial categories at the time experienced repeated construction and reconstruction about a variety of distinct contexts. Based on the readings provides the two authors Mae Ngai and Lisa McGirr share instances where issues of racial profiling were identified to be of great importance about the country’s immigration stand during the early 1920s. During the 1920s, the American government was accused of coming up with reforms that were most inclined towards favoring various individuals about the state of immigration. This was evident based on how the country made use of racial background information in the exercise of coming up with immigration quotas for the people. As such, different immigrants were to be allotted to various quotas depending on their country of origin.

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This was later followed by the creation of a social category that considered all individuals from such countries as ‘Asians. ’ Although this was the case, such individuals would later come to experience heated discrimination based on how the American government was able to come up with policies that so the social exclusion of Asians born in the United States with those from foreign countries. This alternatively made it difficult for the people from the Asian descent to gain full American citizenship during the time. Although the 1924 immigration Act was based on racial lines, it is essential to point out that the American government, through the Roosevelt administration had imposed hefty measures in the process of Americanization. This involved introduction of key ways that would help assist in identifying who eligible for becoming an American and who would not.

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