Friends gather for photos as hundreds of attendees gather for the 10th Annual Hmong New Year Celebration in downtown Chico, California.
Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2012. From the Library of Congress (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.23943).
Written by Linda Trinh Vo, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
After World War II, the number of Asian Americans increased significantly, especially with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the influx of refugees that began in 1975. It has the fastest growing population in the country, even outpacing growth in the Latino population. Colonization by the United States, the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), the Pacific War (1941-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), and the Vietnam War (1965-1975), etc. U.S. foreign policy, including involvement in wars in the United States), is interrelated with Asian migration to the United States. Unlike earlier historical periods when most Asian immigrants arrived as workers, modern Asians have diverse immigration routes, including refugees, orphans, adopted children, spouses, veterans, professionals, and students. , and may enter the United States as an immediate family member. of US residents. The classification and regulation of immigrants and refugees does not belong to individuals as much as institutional provisions that enact differential treatment based on selection criteria such as race, citizenship, or national origin; these structures are politically It varies depending on the situation. 1)
The 1860 U.S. Census recorded approximately 35,000 Asians in the country, mainly Chinese immigrants in California, 90% of whom were male, accounting for 0.1% of the total U.S. population. Ta. Due to immigration restrictions, the Asian American population was barely 500,000 in 1960. But due to changes in immigration and refugee policy, 50 years later, in 2010, there were 17.3 million Asians in the United States… Read more >> (.pdf 3.0 MB)
(1) Mai Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
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