the country validated the formulation of numerous legislations and court rulings both of which sought to restrict and expand immigration from Asia thereby creating the environment experienced by the Asian American minority groups. Key among the legislations was Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which sought to stop further immigration from China. Asiatic Barred Zone Act of 1917 sought to stop immigration into the United States especially from Asian countries. Luce–Celler Act of 1946 resumed the naturalization rights to Asian Americans. Court rulings on the other hand included United States v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898 in which the court ruled that a Chinese immigrant was an American citizen. The ruling did not apply the Chinese Exclusion Act owing to the 14th amendment (Takaki 121).
What factors compelled the majority white legislators to make some of the legislations especially those that limited the immigration of Asian American and what factors necessitated the revision of such laws?
Model minority is a term used in reference to minority group whether religious, racial or ethnic whose members have succeeded in creating a perception of socio economic success about them. In the United States, the Asian American minorities are an example of a model minority. Most of the Asian Americans immigrated into the United States during the agrarian revolution when they sought to work as unskilled laborers in the farms. They later worked in the railway among other sectors of the American economy that offered them employment at the time. Within the last 100 years, the perception about Asian Americans changed from being poor uneducated laborers to educated and hardworking minority group whose members are in the upper middle class.
However, such a perception is a stereotype that obscures the diversity of circumstances among most of the Asian American communities such as the Chinese Americans. The model minority stereotype is a hasty generalization of the groups that makes poor