Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

by Elizabeth Partridge

The Issei, born in Japan, had a different problem. What would happen to them after the war? If they said yes, they would not be citizens of any country. That could be dangerous. If they were kicked out of the United States after the war, where would they go? Japan would not want them.