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War bride

For other uses, seeWar bride (disambiguation).

War bridesare women who married military personnel from other countries in times ofwaror duringmilitary occupations,a practice that occurred in great frequency duringWorld War IandWorld War II. Alliedservicemen married many women in other countries where they were stationed at the end of the war, including theUnited States,theUnited Kingdom,Australia,New Zealand,China,Japan,[1]France,Italy,[2]Greece,Germany,Poland,Luxembourg,Thailand,Vietnam,thePhilippines,Taiwan,Korea,and theSoviet Union.Similar marriages also occurred inKoreaandVietnamwith the later wars in those countries involvingU.S. troopsand otheranti-communistsoldiers.

AustralianFlying Officerreunites inSydneywith Canadian bride and daughter in 1945.

The termwar brideswas first used to refer to women who marriedCanadianservicemen overseas and then later immigrated toCanadaafter the world wars to join their husbands. This term later became popular during World War II. It first started when in January 1919, the Canadian government offered to transport all dependents of Canadian servicemen from Britain to Canada. This included free ocean transport (third class) and rail passage. There are currently no official figures for the numbers of war brides and their children. By the end of 1946, over forty thousand Canadian serviceman had married women from Europe.[3]

There is no exact number on the number of World War I European brides married to American soldiers. Research shows that between thousands to tens of thousands immigrated to the United States after World War I as war brides fromBelgium,England,Ireland,France,Greece,Russia,ItalyandGermany.[4]

After the end ofWorld War IIthe number of women fromEuropeandAsiawho became war brides to American soldiers was estimated in the hundreds of thousands.[5][6]

There were various factors contributing to the intermarriages between foreign servicemen and native women. After World War II, many women in Japan came to admire the personal attributes and status of American soldiers, while there was also mutual attraction to Japanese women among American servicemen.[7][8]British women were attracted to American soldiers because they had relatively high incomes, and were perceived as friendly.[9](A Britishcatchphrase,"Overpaid, oversexed, and over here,"also entered Australianpopular culture.)

Marriage toAsianwar brides had a significant impact onUnited States immigration law,as well as the public perception ofinterethnic,interracial,interfaith,andinterdenominationalcouples. The massive migration of Asian wives to the United States was challenged by pre-existing laws against interracial marriage; however, there was widespread public sympathy for such couples, due to the high reputation ofJapaneseimmigrant brides in the United States.[10]This led to widespread defiance of the law by American servicemen, as well as increased tolerance for interethnic and interracial couples in the United States,[11]and ultimately the repeal of the highly restrictive1924 Immigration Actin 1952.[12]

Philippine–American War

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After thePhilippine–American War,some Filipina women married U.S. servicemen. Those Filipinas were alreadyU.S. nationalsand so when they immigrated to the U.S., their legal status was made significantly different from that of previous Asian immigrants to the U.S.[13]

War brides in World War I

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There are no official figures for war brides in World War I. One report estimated that 25,000 Canadian servicemen married British women during the World War I. In World War II, approximately 48,000 women married Canadian servicemen overseas. By 31 March 1948, the Canadian government had transported about 43,500 war brides and 21,000 children to Canada.[14]

There is no exact number but estimates on the number of World War I war European brides married to American soldiers, research shows that between 5,000 and 18,000 have immigrated to the United States after World War I. The brides came from Belgium, England, Ireland, France, Russia, Italy and Germany.[4]

War brides in World War II

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A U.S. serviceman and a British woman inBournemouth,England, 1941.

United States of America

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After the end of World War II, 50,000 to 100,000 women fromEast Asiawere married to American soldiers, and in total it is estimated that 200,000 Asian women migrated from Philippines, Japan and South Korea between 1945 and 1965.[5][15][16]The estimates for the war brides and military spouses from 1947 to 1975 from Japan totalled 66,681, from Korea 28,205, from the Philippines, 51,747,[17]from Thailand 11,660, and from Vietnam 8,040.[18]

TheU.S. Army'sOperation War Bride,which eventually transported an estimated 70,000 women and children, began in Britain in early 1946. The press dubbed it Operation Diaper Run. The first group of war brides (452 British women and their 173 children, and one bridegroom) left Southampton harbor onSSArgentinaon January 26, 1946, and arrived in the U.S. on February 4, 1946.[19]According toBritish Post-War Migration,the U.S.Immigration and Naturalization Servicereported 37,553 war brides from theBritish Islestook advantage of theWar Brides Actof 1945 to emigrate to the United States, along with 59 warbridegrooms.[20]Over the years, an estimated 300,000 foreign war brides moved to the United States following the passage of the War Brides Act and its subsequent amendments, of which 51,747 were Filipinas.[21]

Other estimates suggest 200,000 women fromContinental Europewere married to American soldiers.[6]An estimated 70,000G.I.war brides left the United Kingdom,[22][9]15,500 fromAustralia,[23]14,000-20,000 fromGermany,[24]and 1,500 fromNew Zealand,between the years 1942 and 1952, having married American soldiers.[25]

Effect of Asian immigrant brides on United States immigration laws

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The 1952 filmJapanese War Bridewas sympathetic to the experiences of mixed couples, emphasizing their courage in the face of discrimination.[26]

Around 50,000 United States servicemen married Japanese wives at the end ofWorld War IIand during theoccupation period.[1]75% of the marriages involved white American soldiers and Japanese brides.[11]Marriages to Asian women initially faced legal obstacles due to pre-existing laws against interracial marriage.[11]However, the determination of American servicemen to marry Japanese women resulted in widespread defiance of the law.[11]The positive reception of Japanese war brides generated sympathy from the general public about the difficulties faced by interracial couples, and promoted increased tolerance forinterracial couples.[10]In 1947, theWar Brides Actwas amended to give citizenship to the children of American servicemen regardless of race or ethnicity.[27]Ultimately the effort to normalize interracial marriages to Japanese women led to the passage of theMcGarran-Walter Act,which repealed theImmigration Act of 1924,thereby loosening restrictions on immigration and citizenship requirements for non-Northwestern European immigrants.[12]

According to journalist Craft Young, a daughter of a Japanese war bride, an estimated 50,000 Japanese war brides migrated to the United States.[1]

However according US consulate, they counted only over 8,000 marriages with 73% being white men and Japanese women by the end of the occupation.[28]

Australia

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English war brides who arrived inBrisbanein October 1945

In 1945 and 1946 severalbride trainswere run in Australia to transport war brides and their children traveling to or from ships.

Robyn Arrowsmith, a historian who spent nine years researching Australia's war brides, said that between 12,000 and 15,000 Australian women had married visiting U.S. servicemen and moved to the U.S. with their husbands.[29]

United Kingdom

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The Scots who emigrated as war brides were celebrated inBud Neill's Lobey Dosser series by the G.I. Bride character (with her baby Ned), forever trying to hitchhike from the fictional Calton Creek inArizonaback to Partick in Scotland. The statue was erected inPartick stationin 2011.[30]

Many war brides came from Australia and other countries to Britain aboardHMSVictoriousfollowing World War II.[31]Roughly 70,000 war brides left Britain for America, Canada, and elsewhere during the 1940s.[22]

Canada

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In Canada, 47,783 British war brides arrived accompanied by some 21,950 children. From 1939, most Canadian soldiers were stationed in Britain, and as such, about 90% of all war brides arriving in Canada were British. Three thousand war brides came from the Netherlands, Belgium, Newfoundland, France, Italy, Ireland, and Scotland.[32]The first marriage between a Canadian serviceman and a British bride was registered atFarnboroughChurch in the Aldershot area in December 1939, just 43 days after the first Canadian soldiers arrived.[32]Many of those war brides emigrated to Canada beginning in 1944 and peaking in 1946.[33]A special Canadian agency, theCanadian Wives' Bureau,was set up by the Canadian Department of Defence to arrange transport and assist war brides in the transition to Canadian life. The majority of Canadian war brides landed atPier 21inHalifax, Nova Scotia,most commonly on the following troop and hospital ships:Queen Mary,Lady Nelson,Letitia,Mauretania,ScythiaandSSÎle de France.[34]

Significantly, an estimated 30,000 to 40,000Newfoundlandwomen married American servicemen during the time ofErnest Harmon Air Force Base's existence (1941–1966), in which tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen arrived to defend the island and North America fromNazi Germanyduring World War II and theSoviet Unionduring theCold War.So many of those war brides settled in the U.S. that in 1966, the Newfoundland government created a tourism campaign specifically tailored to provide opportunities for them and their families to reunite.[35]

TheCanadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21has exhibits and collections dedicated to war brides.[36]There is a National Historic Site marker located at Pier 21, as well.[37]

Germany

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During and after World War II, the majority of German brides were married to white Americans, but some married non-White soldiers. European war brides who filed applications with US officials toemigrate to the United Stateswere sometimes rejected, as there was less approval of interracial marriages involvingAfrican AmericanorFilipino Americanmales.[38][39][40]

Italy

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During the campaign of 1943–1945, there were more than 10,000 marriages between Italian women and American soldiers.[2][41]

From relationships between Italian women and African American soldiers,mulattiniwere born; many of those children were abandoned in orphanages,[2]becauseinterracial marriagewas then not legal in many US states.[42][43]

Japan

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A Japanese war bride is a woman who married an American citizen following the post WW II military occupation of their home country. Their spouses were typically GIs or soldiers.[44]

Japan's post-WWIIoccupation by America facilitated manyinterracial marriagesbetween servicemen and Japanese women. Following Japan's defeat and post war food shortages, many women sought employment as a means to provide for their families. Many were also enamored by the status, power, and prestige the GIs carried with them because of their victory, and sought new economic opportunity through immigration to the United States.[44][45]

Several thousand Japanese who were sent as colonizers toManchukuoand Inner Mongolia were left behind in China. Most of the Japanese left behind in China were women, most of whom married Chinese men and became known as "stranded war wives" (zanryu fujin).[46][47]Because they had children fathered by Chinese men, the Japanese women were not allowed to bring their Chinese families back with them to Japan and so most of them stayed. Japanese law allowed only children fathered by Japanese fathers to become Japanese citizens. It was not until 1972 that Sino-Japanese diplomacy was restored, which allowed those survivors the opportunity to visit or emigrate to Japan. Even then, they faced difficulties; many had been missing so long that they had been declared dead at home.[46]

However, when President Truman signed the Alien Wife Bill, this loosened immigration restrictions by creating the 1945War Brides Act,which allowed the spouses of servicemen to migrate without breaking the quotas set by the1924 Immigration Act.[45]Under the subsequent amendments in the 1946 and 1947 Soldier Brides Act, the time period for immigration was extended by 30 days, all of which led to the immigration of nearly 67,000 Japanese women between the years 1947 and 1975.[48]However, they were not permitted to naturalize until the passage of theMcCarran-Walter Actof 1952, which banned using race as a factor in allowing residents to naturalize.[44]New immigration legislation profoundly impacted Asian immigration patterns by making Asian war brides the largest instance of Asian women migrating to the United States. The migration of over 72,000 women over the span of just 15 years grew the Asian American population by 20%, which in turn gave many Japanese women increased attention in the public eye.[48]

These women came from a diverse array of backgrounds ranging from poverty to upper-class, but all were devastated by the destruction and bombings wrought by the war. They often struggled to provide for themselves and their families due to post-war food, fuel, and employment shortages. Many met servicemen through jobs working on military bases as waiters, clerks, and secretaries. They often chose to move to the United States in hopes of forging a new life.[45]

Japanese women who had immigrated post-WWII as war brides were used to help construct the Asianmodel minoritystereotype. For example, theAmerican Red CrossBrides' School in Japan advised them on how to correctly assimilate into mainstream American society. Their classes offered textbooks in home economics, U.S. history, housekeeping, child raising, and ultimately shaped the modern Japanese woman's beliefs so that these actions were in accordance with mainstream American views ongender roles.Some of these classes even taught women how to bake or to properly wear heels.[48]The ideal wife was taught to be a good mother, homemaker and companion to her husband. Thus, by conforming to an idealized concept of how a good housewife behaved, these Japanese women often becamemodel minoritiespromoted as what others should strive to personify, held up as examples of what an assimilated immigrant should look like. Further, with the passage of theImmigration Act of 1965,immigration could no longer be lawfully restricted by race, ethnicity, nationality or creed.[45]

In spite of these language and behavioral classes, many Japanese women struggled to find a community, especially after the internment of hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans left them feeling displaced and unsure of their racial status in the context of segregation and post war xenophobia.[48]

Vietnam

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Some Japanese soldiers married Vietnamese women or fathered multiple children with the Vietnamese women who remained behind in Vietnam, and the Japanese soldiers themselves returned to Japan in 1955.[why?]The official Vietnamese historical narrative views them as children of rape and prostitution.[49][50]The Japanese forced Vietnamese women to becomecomfort womenalong with Burmese, Indonesian, Thai and Filipina women, and they made up a notable portion of Asian comfort women in general.[51]Japanese use of Malayan and Vietnamese women as comfort women was corroborated by testimonies.[52][53][54][55][56][57][58]There were comfort women stations in areas that make up present-day Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, and South Korea.[59][60]A Korean comfort woman named Kim Ch'un-hui stayed behind in Vietnam and died there when she was 44 in 1963, owning a dairy farm, cafe, U.S. cash, and diamonds worth 200,000 U.S. dollars.[61]

A number of Japanese soldiers stayed behind immediately after the war to stay with their war brides, but in 1954 they were ordered to return to Japan by the Vietnamese government and were encouraged to abandon their wives and children.[62]

The now-abandoned Vietnamese war brides who had mothered children would be forced toraise them by themselvesand often faced harsh criticism for having relations with members of an enemy army that had occupied Vietnam.[62]

Korea

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Korean war brides were those who married American GIs and immigrated to the United States to pursue opportunities for freedom and economic advancement. Many Korean women followed a similar path as the Japanese war brides above after Korea became an independent nation following Japan's defeat in WWII. After thedecolonizationof Japan's territories, concerns about the spread ofcommunismandCold Warcontainment policies, in addition to the Korean War, brought many American soldiers to Korea. These war brides often met American servicemen in military bases through gambling halls, prostitution, or other illicit businesses. Much like their Japanese counterparts, many were convinced that Korea offered them little economic opportunity and success. They therefore saw marriage as a gateway into a new country full of wealth and prosperity.

Although it was a struggle for Korean war brides to assimilate into American society, they generally enjoyed greater economic opportunity in their new country. 6,423 Korean women married U.S. military personnel as war brides during and immediately after theKorean War.[63]

Vietnam War

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8,040 Vietnamese women came to the U.S. as war brides between 1964 and 1975.[64]

Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

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War brides from wars subsequent to Vietnam became less common due to differences in religion and culture, shorter durations of wars, direct orders, and a change in immigration and military laws. As of 2006, only about 2,000 visa requests had been made by U.S. military personnel for Iraqi and Afghan spouses and fiancées.[65]There have nevertheless been several well-publicized cases of American soldiers marrying Iraqi and Afghan women.[66][67]

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Further reading

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  • Lonnie D. Story (March 2004).The Meeting of Anni Adams: The Butterfly of Luxembourg.ISBN1932124268.
  • Carol Fallows (2002).Love & War: stories of war brides from the Great War to Vietnam.ISBN1863252673.
  • Keiko Tamura (2003).Michi's memories: the story of a Japanese war bride.ISBN1740760018.
  • Herbison, Chico. Schultz, Jerry. "Quiet Passages: The Japanese War Bride American Experience." The Center for East Asian Studies: The University of Kansas
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