Immigration group: Asian American citizens lesson 2

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Immigration group: Asian American citizens lesson 2

What is immigration?

Today

What is Xenophobia?

What is Xenophobia?

How does xenophobia lead to racism?

Reasons for people
to immigrate to a
different country

"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

Let's go back in time....

People who already lived in America had to move away 

Beginning of 1800 until 1890

African people being shipped to America

Beginning of 1600 until 1865

Chinese exclusion act (1882 - 1943)

Chinese people were forbidden to come to America

Meanwhile..... white Europeans could come to America

Angel Island

1910 - 1940

Asian immigrants had to wait here for entry

Anti - Japanese movement

Second World War - Pearl Harbour

Japanese incarceration camp

Today, people in America are still fighting against racism.