Students of immigration and ethnicity, and particularly of German Americans, will question her view that trade unions proved most central in the building of community within the ethnic enclave, and will find fault with her brief discussion of religion. Trade Unions and Community: The German Working...
When we look at the spread of Asian American populations across America, we tend to see them clustered around the West Coast and a few other major cities, such as NYC. Their prominence on the West Coast is heavily linked to their history of immigration during the California Gold Rush, and...
Immigration The first wave of immigrants to New York occurred during the 1870s and the 1920s. This wave, like the wave in Chicago, included many Arabs from Syria and what is now Lebanon. These immigrants had been comprised mostly of Syrian Christians – Maronite, Melchite, and Syrian Orthod...
high principles, Bee became the target of death threats as he confronted the second California Constitution in 1879, which allowed for the removal of Chinese residents by local governments, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, a federal law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese labourers....
TheU.S.governmentrespondedbypassingtheChineseExclusionActin1882.TheactprohibitedChineseimmigrationfortenyears.In1892thelawwasextendedforanothertenyears,andin1902itbecamepermanent.ThelawwasrepealedduringWorldWarII,whenChinaandtheUnitedStateswerealliedinthestruggleagainstJapan.TheChinesepopulationintheUnitedStatesdeclined...
### Sources of American Exceptionalism In 1870 the focus of economic growth crossed the Atlantic to America, where continent-wide scale, a flood of immigration, vast resources, and an open society that made inventors and entrepreneurs culture heroes welc
The next consequence of containment policies is that to avoid immigration controls, people on the move are forced to travel along more dangerous routes since, in the first instance, the supply of basic resources for survival, such as water, food and shelter, not to mention medical aid [14,15...
Enacted on December 28, 1945 the War Brides Act allowed the immigration of all non-Asian spouses, natural children and adopted children of U.S. military personal. Asians who had served in the military, excluding Japanese, during the war were given the option of becoming U.S. citizens. ...
During this period, the number of immigrants soared to 23.5 million. In 1907 alone, there were 1.285 million immigrants. Although the U.S. government is somewhat uneasy in this wave of immigration and has legislated many times to restrict immigration, the trend of immigration has continued ...
After immigration laws were reformed during the 1940s–1960s, abolishing national origins quotas, Asian immigration increased rapidly. Analyses of the 2010 census have shown that Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States.[11]【参考译文】尽管来自亚洲的移民自17世纪起就...