ASIAN AMERICANS

Asian Americans

Abstract

In this research paper, we try to explore the concept of Asian American paper issues of social economic stratification, gender and racial inequality. The focuses on the historical review of Asian Americans immigration and immigration policies. It also provides information regarding Asians American's current place in American stratification system (education, income, occupation, and political participation). The paper provides the information regarding what kind of discrimination or prejudice Asian Americans has been subjected. Finally, the paper answer, how they are organize themselves to address their own issues of inequality and discrimination if any?

Asian Americans

Introduction

Asian Americans are a diverse collection of distinct ethnic groups, the largest among them Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian. Asian immigration to the United States consists of two periods. The first began in the mid-nineteenth century with the immigration of Chinese manual laborers. Exclusionary measures beginning in 1882 halted further Chinese immigration and provided an opening for Japanese workers to replace them iii the early part of the twentieth century. Discriminatory laws brought further Asian immigration to a virtual halt in the 1920s.

The second period extends from 1965, when immigration laws were liberalized, to the present. The vast majority of Asian Americans today are first-generation immigrants who stem from this second wave. Many of those of the second wave have come to the United States with much higher occupational skills and more education than earlier immigrants. Both immigrant waves settled primarily on the West Coast, especially California, where Asian Americans remain heavily concentrated.

Historical review of Asian Americans immigration and immigration policies

The immigration in the United States refers to the phenomenon of international scope that brought people living on every continent to settle in the country since the early pioneer era. Immigration was the main source of population growth in the United States and has contributed largely to the cultural enrichment of American history. The socio-political and economic aspects of today's leading immigration have created the opening of national debates on how the ethnic and religious diversity, growth in employment of foreigners in the disadvantage of indigenous, settlement patterns, environmental and social impact, national identity, political affiliation, crime, moral values ??and habits.

The history of immigration to the United States can be divided into four periods: the colonial era, the mid-nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century and post1965. Each era has been characterized by others for reasons that have led people to emigrate and for different ethnic groups involved in the raids and mass movements. Since 1965 he has regained a strong beginning of immigration from Asian countries (China, India) and Latin America (Mexico).

Regulations

Immigration to the United States had no specific restrictions and regulations of flows during the era of pioneering, the first white settlers in which Europeans were trying to conquer the western lands in the hands of Native Americans.

Only since 1875 it began to regulate the entry excluding certain categories of people such as: poor, illiterate, sick, insane, prostitutes, anarchists and communists. From that year the federal government studied different ...