Immigrant Discrimination

After the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, which limited the annual number of immigrants under the quota system, the number of immigrants was drastically reduced. However, the number of emigrants began to increase again from 1945 and rose sharply after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was passed, which abolished quota system. Some groups of immigrants had similar circumstances and reasons with the emigrants who came to the U.S. during the period from the late 19th century and the early 20th century, but highly educated and skilled people also immigrated to the U.S. Like this, different context and historical events caused new kinds of immigration and new types of people to emigrate. Many American soldiers married foreign women during World War II, so …show more content…
and the Soviet Union became the world power and served as a pivotal role in a contest for political hegemony. This competition results in a series of wars in China, korea and Vietnam involving both countries. Eventually, both China and Vietnam became Communist countries and it caused the political and economic elites to flee from this turmoil and formed a bunch of immigrants to the U.S. again (Cheng, Liu, 1994). In this regard, U.S. had to put more effort to keep other countries from being Communist nations, so they began to focus on building up the economic relations and giving foreign aid to several countries, such as Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. In this regard, those countries saw quick recoveries and development, leading to forming friendly relationship with the U.S. Following this, without an option, the U.S. had to show generous and friendly attitude toward these countries. Namely, America’s economic support and effort to spread a capitalist ideology gave the U.S. a factor in the easing of restrictions on Asian immigration and created the the context for mass immigration of both semi-skilled and PTK (professional, technical, kindred) immigration from South Korea, the Philippines and