War immigrants
War immigrants
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/world-60497619
1942年日本偷襲美國珍珠港後，美國總統命令日裔美國人從美國西海岸的社區「撤離」，加拿大、墨西哥以及南美幾個國家也都有類似的項目。
在1942-1946年間，大約有12萬日裔美國人被迫離開家園到政府所開設的集中營中生活。其中有幾千名老人和兒童，還有幾名囚犯被衛兵開槍打死。日裔美國公民 超過十六分之一日本血統的人,
只要你有一位曾曾祖父母/外祖父母是日本人，你就可能會被趕離家園，被送往遙遠的拘留營。
Chinese seafarers with British wives and children were
“coerced” into boats leaving Liverpool after the second world war in a
“racially inflected” secret government programme, the Home Office has admitted.
After responding to calls to serve in the British
merchant navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, about 2,000 Chinese seamen
remained in Liverpool at the end of the war. They were subject
to a secret Home Office campaign in 1945-46 to round up and ship them back east
in the cargo holds of British ships.
A significant number had married British women and had
children with them in the final years of the war. After boarding ships docked
in the Mersey bound for Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, they were never seen
by their families again.
Kevin Foster, agreed to launch an internal
investigation in July last year.
MP, Kim Johnson:
it
“paints a damning picture of the British treatment of Chinese seafarers in
Liverpool, with families brutally ripped apart despite their service to our
country during the war”.
She said: “It leaves no doubt that the Chinese community
received racist and coercive treatment at the hands of the state. These events
are a stain on our history and unfortunately there are still many parallels
with the way minoritised and migrant workers are treated in our country today.”
Thousands of Chinese seamen were
repatriated on ships on which their names were never recorded. One handwritten
shipping manifest found by the Guardian, for the SS Diomed’s departure on 8
December 1945, read simply: “100 Chinese seamen shipped by the Home Office.
Manifest prepared by HM Immigration Office.”
If they made it to mainland China, the seamen would have arrived
back to a nation erupting into full-scale civil war, making a return to Britain
all but impossible.
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