alien land laws reflection
Questions/Goals for this Week:
- How did early legislation seek to constrain the kinds of work that Asian immigrants were involved in?
- How were some of those earlier attempts eventually challenged and overturned?
i attached the article below , make sure your read the article.
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Alien land laws were legislation passed at the state level seeking to constrain land ownership of Asian immigrants, especially Japanese farmers, citing their potential economic threat. As Aoki writes,
[The 1913 California Alien Land Law] barred “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning fee simple absolute interest in agricultural property [i.e., ownership] or from entering into leases for such land longer than three years. Land acquired in violation of the statue would, following successful completion of an escheat action by the California State Attorney General, escheat to the state [i.e., confiscation] (55).
They key phrase here is “alien ineligible to citizenship” which references the exclusion of Asian immigrants from naturalization.
California’s passage of its first alien land law in 1913 was succeeded by eight more states passing various forms of alien land laws by 1925, most of them in the west but later also included southern states as well. The alien land laws themselves were upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United State, which we will look at here.
Aoki argues that the alien land laws set the stage for the incarceration of Japanese Americans, a topic that will be explored in an upcoming module.
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