Attempts to Challenge or Postpone Displacement

Though faced with the reality of internment and disruption of communal lives, Japanese Mexicans and their allies resisted and sought, steadfastly, to exercise their citizenship rights in Mexico. They challenged or attempted to postpone state pressures and decrees to uproot them from communities, fam...

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Published inUprooting Community p. 109
Main Author Chew, Selfa A
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Arizona Press 22.10.2015
Subjects
Armed conflict
Armed forces
Behavioral sciences
Children
Civil rights
Communities
Concentration camps
Criminal arrests
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Government
Government officials
Government services
Governors
Human populations
Human societies
International humanitarian law
International law
Internment camps
Labor economics
Law
Law enforcement
Law enforcement procedures
Laws of war
Legal rights
Medical personnel
Military personnel
Military science
Occupations
Persons
Physicians
Political science
Population studies
Retirement communities
Social groups
Social sciences
Sociology
Soldiers
War
War theaters
World wars
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Summary:Though faced with the reality of internment and disruption of communal lives, Japanese Mexicans and their allies resisted and sought, steadfastly, to exercise their citizenship rights in Mexico. They challenged or attempted to postpone state pressures and decrees to uproot them from communities, family life, and friendships that had prevailed prior to World War II. This chapter seeks to explain the factors that enabled Japanese Mexicans to challenge state power successfully as well as factors that led others to succumb to government legerdemain and marginalization. During World War II, Japa nese Mexicans and their allies had to abandon legal recourses
ISBN:9780816531851
0816531854
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt183p99h.11