Following the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7, 1941, the lives and fortunes of resident Japanese Americans changed dramatically. Over 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans--over half of them US citizens--found themselves ordered into War Relocation Camps for the duration of the war. / Virtually unknown until now is that the United States also pursued similar goals with several Latin American governments. The United States actions, it was felt, required deporting Peruvians of Japanese, German and Italian background to the United States. For the German and Italians a return "to their home of ethnic origin" awaited. The fate of the Japanese from Peru and other Latin American countries however, was different. Under a plan crafted by General George C. Marshall, they were to be exchanged for non-official Americans currently held by the Japanese in recently conquered territories across Asia. / This dissertation explores the machinery of the United States and Peruvian program that saw several thousand Japanese deported from their homes and placed in Immigration and Naturalization camps in Texas, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, and North Dakota pending trade for Americans. However, following the end of hostilities 1945, the United States attempted to return the deported Japanese to Peru and Peruvian officials refused to accept the Japanese back--although they had no difficulties with the return of their Germans and Italians. Peruvian Japanese waited another ten years in the United States before resolution of this very difficult legal and political problem occurred. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-02, Section: A, page: 0824. / Major Professor: Neil Betten. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77655 |
| Contributors | Connell, Thomas, III., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 372 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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