Postwar geopolitics shifted US immigration policy toward selective inclusion

Evidence

The next major phase of Arab migration to the United States occurred during the post–World War II era. This period saw an increase in Muslim migrants. While the first wave brought sojourners who came in search of work opportunities and intended to eventually move back to the Greater Syria area, the second wave brought political refugees to the United States due to war and turmoil in their home countries. At that time, global interests and shifting international relations were causing America to move toward more inclusive immigration policies. For example, because China aided the United States in World War II, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was repealed in 1942 (Cainkar 2009). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 97

Categorization

• XREF: The Chinese Exclusion Act repeal as wartime reward parallels the reader’s revisionist take on US inclusion politics; connects to policy-shift mechanics broader than Selod’s topic. — connects to: Economic appetite, not prior precedent, drove postwar America’s welcoming of immigrants — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 96