Immigration bans

Sakoku (; ; ) was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almost all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country. The policy was enacted by the shogunate government (bakufu) under Tokugawa Iemitsu through a number of edicts and policies from 1633 to 1639.

act of US Congress in 1882 that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers

1939 statement of British policy in Palestine

1924 United States anti-immigration law

Canadian 1923 immigration legislation