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South Asians --- Asians --- Youth movements --- Youth movement --- Social movements --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- History --- Great Britain --- Ethnic relations

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From 1870 to 1940, racial eligibility for naturalization in the United States was limited to "free white persons" and "aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent," and many interpreted these restrictions to reflect a policy of Asian exclusion based on the conclusion that Asians were neither white nor African. Because the distinction between white and Asian was considerably unstable, however, those charged with the interpretation and implementation of the naturalization act faced difficult racial classification questions. Through archival research and a close reading of the arguments contained in the documents of the US Bureau of Naturalization, especially those documents that discussed challenges to racial eligibility for naturalization, Doug Coulson demonstrates that the strategy of foregrounding shared external threats to the nation as a means of transcending perceived racial divisions was often more important to racial classification than legal doctrine. He argues that this was due to the rapid shifts in the nation's enmities and alliances during the early twentieth century and the close relationship between race, nation, and sovereignty.

Emigration and immigration law --- Citizenship --- Race discrimination --- Asians --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants tended to evade exclusionary laws through deliberate misrepresentations of their identities or through extralegal means. Eventually, many of these immigrants and their descendants came to accept prevailing legal norms governing their citizenship in the United States. In many cases, this involved

Emigration and immigration law --- Immigrants --- Asians --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- History. --- Asia --- United States --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Emigration and immigration

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Between Cultures considers the position of young Asians in Britain in relation to education, employment, housing, the police and the responses they encounter from these institutions. It explores the cultural issues of family, marriage, religion and mother tongue, and the roles of Asian parents and the Asian community are analysed. Muhammad Anwar goes on to compare the situation of young Asians with that of young people generally, and to those in similar circumstances but with different backgrounds and religions.

Asians --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Social life and customs. --- Great Britain --- Race relations. --- Social life and customs --- Race relations --- Asians - Great Britain - Social life and customs --- Great Britain - Race relations

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Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed. Some are haunted by childhood memories of war, trauma, and refugee camps. Rejecting an obsession with professional status and money, they seek fulfillment by prioritising relationships, personal growth, and cultural success. As Ty shows, these storytellers have done more than reject a narrowly defined road to happiness. They have rejected neoliberal capitalism itself. In so doing, they demand that the rest of us reconsider our outmoded ideas about the so-called model minority.

Asian Americans in literature. --- Asians in literature. --- Asian Americans --- Asians --- Model minority stereotype. --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity. --- Race identity --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Orientals --- Ethnology