AAS 100 Lecture 1: Overview of Asian American Immigration
18 Dec 2015
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Overview of asian american immigration think about 2 concept: stranger and shore two waves of aa migration: pre-1965 vs post-1965: difference in time of arrival, push/pull factors, geographic. Aa population: 1960"s less than 1 million (less than 1% of the u. s. regions population, 1990 7. 6 million (3%, 2000 12. 2 million (4. 3%, 2012 18. 9 million (5. 7%) 1st wave (1849-1940): labor migration to hawaii and west. 380,000 in mainland (150,000) returned: occupational problems: Cheap laborer: mines, agriculture, railroad construction, lumber, mills, canneries, salmon fisheries, service jobs. Ethnic business: restaurants, laundries, hotel, barbershop, merchant.
