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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
Only a few months after ratification of the Constitution, the Congress limited naturalization to "any alien, being a free White person."
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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
Federal law restricted immigration to the United States on the basis of race for nearly one hundred years: from the Chinese exclusion laws of the 1880s until the end of National Origin quotas in 1965.
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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
Until 1940 the automatic acquisition of citizenship by virtue of birth was tied to race.
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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the 1922 Cable Act and the 1924 National Origins Act limited immigration from Asia and forbade women from China, India, Japan and Korea to enter the United States even as wives of U.S. citizens.
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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
Immigration of Asian spouses and children of U.S. servicemen was later permitted under the 1945 War Brides Act.
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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
The 1965 Immigration Act abolished the national origin quotas and Asian immigrants were allowed to enter the country under the provisions of "necessary skills" or for "family reunification."
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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
The 1965 Amendments to the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 emphasized "skilled labor" and "student" categories; therefore admitted immigrants possessed high educational levels and professional experience.
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Motivation of Asian Americans to Study Medicine: A Pilot Study   (2007)   Ralitsa Akins, M.D., Ph.D.     
The 1965 legislature allowed students to change their status to permanent residents if their studies were in the field of medicine, engineering or skilled professional occupations, needed for the economic growth of the country.
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Robert Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Reinterpretation   (2007)   Mark White     
With the two superpowers teetering on the brink of war, and possibly a nuclear war at that, the issue of how to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in October 1962, while maintaining the peace, represented the greatest challenge of John F. Kennedy's presidency.
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Robert Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Reinterpretation   (2007)   Mark White     
To a significant extent, an heroic interpretation of Robert Kennedy's contribution to American policy-making and diplomacy during the missile crisis still permeates the literature, as it has done for nearly four decades.
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