Traditionally, the majority of immigrants had come from western European countries; the revised immigration acts opened the door for millions of immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Some of the books in the series. The Changing Face of North America: Immigratio... (展开全部) 我来...
In The Third Asiatic Invasion, Rick Baldoz examines "the entanglement of immigration, empire, and citizenship" (p. 9) embodied in the unique history of Filipinos in the United States. Filipinos made up the "third invasion" of Asian immigrants to America, after the Chinese and Japanese ...
“In early immigration waves Filipinos were not politically oriented,” said Alex Esclamado, longtime editor and publisher of the San Francisco-based Philippine News and the president of the Filipino American Political Assn., a national group that aims to promote voter awareness. “Even if they we...
Quezon obtained only a slight modification of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act; key issues relating to the island economy and immigration to the United States remained unchanged. At the end of the ten-year transition period, the United States was to withdraw its forces from all military and naval ba...
We decided to interview 100 Filipinos to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the first major wave of immigration. We intentionally decided to not make it a Who’s Who list and included a wide cross section of people from different age groups and professions. This project took seven ...
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Currently there are considerable discussions at the federal level about immigration reform. One of the key areas of debate is family immigration (sponsorship of relatives to immigrate to the United States) and the specifics on who is and who is not included as part of the provisions that are...
Unlike states like Hawaii, California and Alaska, where immigration was predisposed to agriculture and the military, Pennsylvania hosted Filipinos immigration to America via medical education for doctors and nurses immediately after the Philippine-American War ended in 1902. While some people stayed in ...
New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America This paper attempts to critically analyze issues of postcolonial displacement, immigration, and homosexuality by examining the works of two Filipino gay im... L Cho 被引量: 1发表: 2005年 ...
1. Introduction In recent years immigration has become a controversial topic for public and policy debate in the US and the EU. Opinions diverge on whether to restrict immigration by enhancing border security. Likewise, the debate on the paths to entry and citizenship covers almost the whole ...