Chinese Immigration

Chinese Resistance and the Exclusion Act
The periods around 1850 was majorly characterized by the huge migration of the Chinese people into the United States of America. Even though there are many reasons why such immigration occurred, the Chinese people had a vivid idea of the cause for their movement into the United States. For instance, one of the main causes for their migration involved search for employment opportunities abroad, since they lacked such positions back home. In this case, a huge number had come to offer relatively cheap labor in the gold mines, seek position in the agricultural jobs, which were abundant in America, as well as factory jobs in the garment industry (Okihiro, 2014). As the Chinese took the jobs, the American
In this case, there was a general feeling among the American people that there was an urgent need in terms of policy development, aimed at curbing further social tensions through limiting the rate at which Chinese stream into the country with social abnormalities (Cohen, 2010). For instance, some of the American advocates, who promoted the anti-Chinese legislative processes, presented a valid argument that allowing the Chinese into the county was the biggest contributed to the declining standards of the social construction of the American society.
Furthermore, other advocates of the anti-Chinese immigration also presented a racist argument, in which they claimed that allowing further influx of such immigrants would hurt the integrity of the racial composition of the American people. With claims regarding a breach in the American social norms, the American people gained stronger grounds upon which they would resist Chinese immigrants, and participate in the process of legislation of the anti-Chinese immigration laws in the country (Cohen,
The American people, having been the most affected parties, needed their government to pass laws that would work to reinstate their economic and social norms, by limiting the influence from the Chinese governments. In this regard, the California state government took an initiative to restore the economic and social dignity of the Americans, by passing a series of measures, such as those that required special licenses from the Chinese workers and businessmen. These set of legislations aimed at preventing the possibilities of naturalization. The reactions from the American people, in tandem with the legislative processes that aimed at curbing further influence from the Chinese immigrants, were a pointer to the reasons why they faced resistance. For example, their readiness and willingness to offer cheap labor, replacing the American workers, as well as violating the American social norms were a cause of social and economic