Yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the arguments for and against the Travel Ban. In these arguments, the executive order against Japanese American during WWII was mentioned. For this blog I want to talk about the displacement that Japanese Americans went through. About 110,000 Japanese Americans were displaced in this time period. They were forced to move to the western side of America, leaving behind their homes and friends. During WWII, Japanese were separated from the rest of society and were forced to live in interment camps. Additionally only American-born Japanese were allowed to hold positions of authority causing conflict between the Japanese. The Japanese culture involves a lot of pride. When the children of Japanese Americans held positions of authority, their parents were deprived from respect. As a result of this displacement in roles 5,589 American born Japanese renounced their American citizenship.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/appeals-court-weigh-trumps-revised-travel-ban-47412785
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
It is understandable that this argument came up. From the history during world war II that japanese were being forced to move into camps far away from other people and being isolated so no one is in touch with them. Now having american born japanese there is conflict that people have during the time of war against their home country. And maybe because of this that they felt displaced.
This is very intriguing as my topic for the paper dives into the Trump Syrian refugee ban. These ideas of banning people of certain nations seems to have become a common occurrence in times of conflict.