Summary Of Angel Island And Wonderful To Open Eyes To Immigration

The book started off with the family in the US and their visas expired. They are driving to the US / Canadian border in order to apply for asylum. The reason they applied for asylum was that the US was starting to crack down on illegal immigrants, after multiple terrorist attacks killing hundreds people from the US.

The earliest inhabitants of Angel Island were the Coast Miwok Indians, who visited often through the use of handmade tule boats. They lived in temporary houses made of branches and tule, and many of them enjoyed fishing and hunting. From 1863 to 1946, the island was an United States army base which was previously declared as a military reserve on January 1850. During World War II, German and Japanese prisoners of war were detained. Angel Island had its first detention camp as a result of the Spanish-American War, holding captured soldiers and American Indians. Because of the diseases that were prevalent during the 1890's, a quarantine station was built to inspect and occasionally disinfect ships from foreign areas. The station was a success — having a staff that took responsibilities for different objectives including deporting persons with diseases such as the yellow fever, gonorrhea, and trachoma.

Immigration has been a very disputable topic in America. Newcomers to America undergo many struggles during their time trying to get a better life from which they came. The author Cristina Henriquez is that of Latino immigrants, she published the book in 2013 around the time when Immigration started becoming more controversial. Henriquez wrote the book as a way to show the point of view of immigrants escaping corrupted homelands or in search of better lives but sometimes at certain costs. An article on the Book of Unknown Americans editorial eyes says “Book of Unknown Americans plays against the idea of America as the promised land for people running from social or political upheaval, or people running toward a shining dream of success in a

In Jamie Ford’s historical fiction Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, this split narrative focuses on two eras: 1942 and 1986. Within these era’s, Ford’s novel focuses on a Chinese boy, Henry Lee, and what it was like to grow up in the international district with prejudice everywhere, especially in his own family being a first generation American. His novel tells the story of Henry, as well as a Japanese girl by the name of Keiko. The novel tells the story of these two young friends and the hardships faced when the government sends Keiko and her family away to the Japanese internment camps in the Northwest in the 1940’s. His novel displays the effects

Ronald Takaki’s chapter in his sweeping 1989 text, Strangers from a Different Shore, “Dollar a Day, Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos”, outlines the experiences of primarily male Filipino immigrants to the U.S in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The author did a good job showing what the Filipino went through. Like many immigrants before them, they came seeking work and a better livelihood. They faced backbreaking work, low wages, and at time, extreme racism. However, in many ways the Filipino immigrant experiences were extremely different from other ethnic groups, the Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

We should adopt One Book, One City project centered around Enriquez Journey as our first book. According to reviews on People.com, Enriquez Journey is “[A] searing report from the immigration frontlines…as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.” It gives us an opportunity to open up our minds because we can get details about the experiences people go through. With elections coming up and immigration being a heated topic, this would be great book to see both sides of it. With the diversity in Fort Morgan, we can all learn from each other and we can even have books in Spanish and Somali, so everyone is included. We could even have a youth one book,one city project to get younger kids involved from a young age. As they say, the young minds create our future. With One Book, One City project for Fort Morgan centered around Enriquez Journey, we can create union and it’s never a bad idea to try something new for our

Francisco writes this book and describes his adventures while living illegally in the U.S. He teaches kids around the world that racial barriers aren’t a bad thing but is a good

Angel Island at this time was mostly Chinese Immigrants. The immigrants that were on Angel Island had a hard time adapting to the new cultures. The cultural differences between the Chinese and the Americans were huge. Chinese women had the biggest change. They were not allowed to go outside in the daytime and made to work with the men all day.

In spite of being known as the land of opportunity many immigrants are denied. For instance, after the potato famine in Ireland as millions of malnourished and impoverished Irish came to America they were deny the right of even applying for a job. Store Owners would put up signs saying,”No Irish need apply”.This represented a loss in the ability of the Irish to survive and moreso throvem. The Chinese also faced outrageous treatment. Even though the Chinese were the primary workforce on the transcontinental railroad,they were paid lower wages not to mention the Chinese Exclusion Acts which went as far as to prevent naturalization.”Is it possible for you and your husband to encourage your children to practice their English when they are home?”Of course my parents complied.What would they not do for their children.”(Document E) The sinister undertones in this text display how being different is truly unacceptable as main character,Richard

The 1890s to the 1920s was the first time that the federal government was taking a real stand and control over immigration policies. It also saw the two greatest waves of immigration in the country’s history. War, poverty, political turmoil, social upheaval, food shortages, lack of available jobs and more prompted people from foreign countries to move to the United States because it was the land of dreams and prosperity. After the depression of the 1890s immigration jumped from 3.5 million to 9 million in a ten year period. By 1900, New York City had as many Irish residents as Dublin and more Italians than any city outside Rome and more Poles than any city except Warsaw. It had more Jews than any other city in the world, as well as large amount of Slavs, Lithuanians, Chinese, and Scandinavians (Collier). The government began to limit these new immigrants. From 1882 until 1943 most Chinese immigrants were barred from entering the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act, the nation’s first law to ban immigration by race or nationality. In 1892, Ellis Island was opened in New York evaluate immigrants before allowing them to enter the United States. On the West Coast, Angel Island, a similar immigrant station opened near San Francisco. World economies slowed and other problems occurred that caused people to become desperate for work and a fresh start.

Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.

The United States is set apart from other countries in that we have a unique economic, political, and spiritual system from the rest of the world. This also poses a unique problem to our society: Since we possess desirable aspects as a country, we have to deal with the issue of immigration. Legal immigration is a great benefit to our society, and if we can control and harness immigration, it will better our country for years to come. While illegal immigration is an enormous problem that needs to be solved, legal immigration is a great asset to our economy and American society as a whole.

Chinese immigration experiences on the West Coast were rough enough once they settled into an area, however, in order to get “settled,” they first had to deal with the preposterous experiences of entry onto the coast through the various ports like Port Townsend in Washington and Angel Island in California. Mary Coolidge, a staunch supporter of Chinese immigrants’ rights, wrote the book Chinese Immigration, where she gave plenty of detailed examples of the blatant anti-Chinese sentiment that rampaged through these ports and the general mistreatment that came from it. The officers at the ports made it very difficult for any Chinese people to get into the U.S., even ones that had already been working in the U.S. and just wanted to visit China for bit and return back to the States. Coolidge indicated that situations

The pain and the suffering, the oppression, and the exclusion all describe the history of Asia America. When they arrived to the United States, they become labeled as Asians. These Asians come from Japan, China, Korea, Laos, Thailand, and many other diverse countries in the Eastern hemisphere. These people wanted to escape from their impoverished lives as the West continued to infiltrate their motherland. They saw America as the promise land filled with opportunity to succeed in life. Yet due to the discrimination placed from society and continual unfair

“Mama?” Almost immediately I cannot detect her red curly hair anymore, I can only hear her cry my name, “Sonny!” My heart drops down to my feet the second I cannot hear her voice calling my name anymore. What do I do? Do I ask for help? How come when something finally goes right, something goes wrong? Mother and I just finished the Ellis Island inspection and become separated. With no clue where I stand, I have a mini panic attack. To make everything worse, it’s ice-cold out here.