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    "url_title": "War Brides Act",
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    "title": "War Brides Act",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <p>\n  Wartime legislation, passed in 1945, that eased immigration restrictions for foreign wives of American servicemen. In 1943, in the context of World War II, laws excluding immigrants on the basis of race started to be repealed, and laws that gave preference to family reunification started to take their place. The Magnuson Act specifically repealed the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Chinese_Exclusion_Act/\" title=\"Chinese Exclusion Act\">\n   Chinese Exclusion Act\n  </a>\n  (Act of December 17, 1943, 57 Stat. 600; 8 U.S.C. 212(a)). Even though Chinese immigrants were given a very small annual quota of 105, it was significant that as allies, the United States would no longer bar Chinese from entry entirely based on race alone. Other laws facilitated the immigration of the wives, fiancées and family members of servicemen after World War II. The War Brides Act of 1945 added a gender dynamic to the repeal of\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Chinese_Exclusion_Act/\" title=\"Chinese Exclusion Act\">\n   Chinese Exclusion\n  </a>\n  , and later to Asian exclusion in general. The War Brides act allowed servicemen, including\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n   Nisei\n  </a>\n  servicemen in Europe and Asia, who married women while stationed abroad to bring their wives to the United States on a non-quota basis and without regard to racial exclusion laws (Act of December 28, 1945, 59 Stat. 659: 8 U.S.C. 232-236).  In 1946, this provision was expanded to include the \"Alien Fiancees and Fiances\" of servicemen with the stipulation that they marry within three months of entering the United States. Since immigration laws were slow to admit new immigrants from Asia before 1965, this law had the effect of allowing more Asian women than men to immigrate during this period, skewing immigration from Japan specifically toward a female immigrant population.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Cherstin_M._Lyon/\" title=\"Cherstin M. Lyon\">\n    Cherstin M. Lyon\n   </a>\n   , California State University, San Bernardino\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Lyon, Cherstin\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Glenn, Evelyn Nakano.\n    <i>\n     Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service.\n    </i>\n    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153725\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.004 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.006 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 26/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 453/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 144/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    2.678      1 -total\n 49.21%    1.318      1 Template:Published\n 49.11%    1.315      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3392-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153725 and revision id 20624\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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