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Asian American Women

Introduction

The U.S. Senators and Representatives adopted the Immigration Act of 1965; they had no idea that the removal of quotas enshrined in the Act of 1924 national origins have a particular influence Liere on immigration from Asia. They saw it as rather a means of facilitate the arrival of Eastern Europeans and South. The two groups hardest affected by the legislation nativist the twenties, but the new law brought the changes quite different from what its founders sought. By posing as main criteria for admission to the country, on the one hand, the possession of qualifications rare and sought, on the other hand, relations of kinship with people residing the United States or of the nationality, it would have the effect of input.

Discussion

Asian American Roles

Many Asian managers and technicians particularly in the fields of Medicine and Science - which then took advantage of grouping clauses family to bring their "immediate family", often less educated than them. Moreover, the fall of Saigon in 1975 would result in a significant wave of Refugees admitted to residence on humanitarian grounds: between 1975 and 1980, Department of Justice authorized more than 400,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians and other refugees from Southeast Asia to settle in the United States, and so that Asian residents, who numbered 1.4 million in 1965, less 1% of the population of the United States, rose to nearly 3.5 million in 1980, about 7.3 million in 1990 and 11.9 million in 2000, that is to say 4.2% of the population. States with the most Asians are California (4.2 million), New York (1.2 million) and Hawaii (0.7 million). Chinese (2.7 million), Filipinos (2.4 million) and Indians (1.9 million) are the most represented. More importantly, the Asian population, there was a quarter century mostly born in the United States, now composed of two-thirds of immigrated. Meanwhile, the symbolic status of this group in the public culture of United States and in the national representations of Americans had a change of the most spectacular. This article will describe and analyze these developments.

The history of Asians in the United States dates back to the early eighteen the century, when Filipino seafarers arrived on merchant ships, settled in the bayous of Louisiana, but the first real wave of immigration did not intervene that in the 1840s, when Chinese immigrants began to discretionary in Hawaii to work on plantations, and on the West Coast for mines gold and the construction of the western part of the transcontinental railroad. This was primarily a vocation temporary migration of workers complaint prior to return home after several years in America, like those many Europeans who hoped to "earn enough fast enough money to buy back the family farm, the dowry fund for girls and sisters, or to establish itself in the homeland. For these people, the journey to the United States was an extension of the practice of seasonal migration International, who then trivialized in Europe ". However, the presence of Chinese on American soil speedily raised an outcry nativists: we brandished the "yellow peril", it denounced the invasion ...