アメリカ市民権の使用と乱用 : 日系アメリカ市民戦時強制収容を中心として(山本剛郎教授退職記念号)

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For the Japanese community in the United States, especially during a couple of decades before and during the United Staytes-Japanese war, citizenship was (and still is) a vitally important asset. The immigrant generation called Issei, or the first generation, suffered from discrimination, legal or otherwise. Identifying the source of this hardship as their "alien" status, the Issei counted on their citizen descendants to improve the lot of their community. The United States government and ethe society at large, however, treated the citizenship of the second generation as second-class. The majority of the Japanese community endured the hardship and accommodated themselves to the federal government's policy of removing and incarcerating all the members of the community, both "aliens" and citizens, on the west coasty. The government even tested the loyalty of each member. Some Japanese Americans resented and renounced their citizenship. This paper examines, from the perspective of legal history, how the federal government treated Japanese American citizenship, and how the Japanese Americans used their own citizenship. It seeks to show how the renunciation of citizenship, a precious asset the Issei once treasured, came to be seen as a sensible strategy for some Japanese Americans to obtain a sense of security in a hostile environment outside the wartime camps.
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