Incarceration Advantages

The United States entered into World War II after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066, forcing the removal of 110,000 Japanese to detention centers. The incarceration caused a deep trauma for many Japanese Americans, exposing them to harassment, danger, and violence. They were taken away from their freedom of speech, choice, and association. Japanese Americans were discriminated, an American racial/ethnic subject to be negotiated, and often looked down to because they were neither black or white. The incarceration was an advantage for Japanese American women because it decreased women’s domestic duties, give them a higher job position, and higher education.
Ironically, the incarceration benefited young Japanese American women by allowing them to work in a higher position job outside the home. “A concentration camp 's largely homogenous racial world meant increased opportunities for advancement outside the work environment as well, and the USO provided a distinctive culture for women 's self-assertion and community-building efforts”

Another advantage of the incarceration was school attendance and requirement. It is mandatory to attend school for children. The amount of schooling in the camp was longer due to “the offset time lost in the evacuation and in the assembly centres” (Howard 133). Children were required to attend school instead of helping families at home or in family business. It gives mothers less responsibility on taking care of their children. School also improved future prospects for girls while the boys learn about the war. However, women were still treated unfairly by the white community, “English-speaking Japanese Americans of Christian faith, especially those 'loyal ', heterosexual, second-generation citizen Nisei from California, could enjoy considerable physical and social mobility one moment, but could be confined to camp the next” (Howard 144). Women still faced struggles in the detention