The Most First Generation Filipino Americans

The United States is made up of two different types of immigrants: those who are born on U.S. soil and those who travel to settle here. However, despite whether one is born in the United States or not for most their lineage runs back to other countries. It is evident that a majority of the U.S. first immigration wave was around the late 1800’s to the 1920’s. This was a time in which many immigrants where leaving their countries due to different reasons and finding prosperity in the U.S. In the book 97 Orchards: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement (97 Orchard) by Jane Ziegelman she explores and paints the history of five different immigrant families. The book goes into great detail sharing stories of daily

The Filipino and Japanese immigrant to the United States in the 19th century. There are different push and pull factor that brought these ethnic group out of their country and move to the united states. The main reason that these ethnic group move out their country was searching for the “American Dream” which give them the opportunity for a better life, education, and wealth. Both Filipino and Japanese was the first group that came to Hawaii to work during the popularity production of sugar and agricultural in the mainland. They face discrimination and low-wages job with no benefits. However, they brought their own culture and skill to the United States which make difficult for them to adapt into the American culture. Although the Filipino and Japanese immigrant have the same common experiences coming to the unites states. There are some highlight similarities and difference between these two ethic.

During the 1840s to 1850s, Chinese moved to California because of the California gold rush. They were poor but nice, “Chinese were nice and they desperately wanted money, but the had been discriminated against.” (Chinese worksheet). Chinese went to California in search for wealth, food, and protection, but they faced many hardships. Despite the hardships they had, they stayed there and spread their culture.

Just half were Americans; the rest originated from Britain, Australia, Germany, France, Latin America, and China. Units of troopers forsook; mariners escaped; spouses left wives; understudies fled from their lords; agriculturists and businessmen abandoned their jobs. By July, 1850, mariners had relinquished 500 ships in San Francisco Bay. Inside a year, California's populace had swollen from 14,000 to 100,000. The number of inhabitants in San Francisco, which remained at 459 in the late spring of 1847, achieved 20,000 inside a couple of

The U.S. colonized the Philippines between 1900 and 1934. This had a significant impact on the mass immigration of the Filipinos. The Filipino immigrants were then made U.S. nationals and granted the opportunity of settling in the U.S. and protected by its law and constitution. The increase in demand for labor in California farmlands and Hawaiian plantation led to a surge of Filipino immigrants seeking these jobs (Abraham 14). They mostly came from the provinces of Cebu and Ilocos. The demand for labor in these farms was attributed to the exit of the Japanese work force from the plantations. The immigrants from Philippines mostly comprised of a subgroup known as Sakadas, who entered Hawaii as U.S. nationals. However, they did not enjoy

During the old time, many companies in San Fransico needed many labors for the transcontinentual road and the gold rush. Therefore, Peter, like other Chinese, was attracted to immigrate to America for work. Besides the need of labor, economic opportunities also attracted Peter to come. As I mentioned in above paragraphs, Chinese workers in America usually were paid higher than they were paid in China. Thus, Peter was attracted to immigrate to America for work. Moreover, Peter with higher salary could send more remittances back to his family and improve his family's life condition. As for the family and kinship network, the Chinatown was a place where the network was big enough for Chinese to contact with each others. Therefore, living inside the Chinatown can prevent Chinese suffering from uncomfortableness towards a new place and attract more Chinese people to

When an earthquake destroyed the area in 1906, natives thought that they would be able to reclaim the area and kick the immigrants out. To their surprise, the old, run-down Chinatown was rebuilt in the exact same location but had an entirely different feel. The new Chinatown was bright, cheery, and characteristically oriental with “curved eaves, colorful street lanterns, recessed balconies, and gilded facades” (Bancroft). The new Chinatown brought to California exactly what it was intended to: more attraction, more people, and therefore more business. With filling the job spots that were difficult and grueling and then attracting tourism to California, the immigrants were now boosting our economy in more way than one.

They move to America because they have heard stories of other immigrants who make prosperity, and want to do the same for their family. They move into a settlement in Chicago known as Packingtown, a ghetto full with rundown housing and polluting industrial factories where laborers risk their lives inside and work for low wages. They are unconscious of the hustle of the citizens to cheat anybody they can and are taken advantage of by a couple of them. America isn't exactly what it appears to be, yet they are determined to start their new life in American since coming to America was the fantasy of numerous workers of this period.

During the 1930’s to the 1940’s the great depression was affecting many mass migration movement towards the west coast. According to, “The Migrant Experience” by Robin A. Fanslow, the migrants that were known to be concentrated

Many cultures search for better opportunities for themselves and their families. These are opportunities such as a higher income, educations, and a safe environment. In most occasions us as human posses the instinct to relocate from a habitat if it demonstrates unfavorable results. During the 1970’s Americans’ began noticing the immigration population rising tremendously after World War II. In the late 1960’s most immigrants came from Europe, however after the 1970’s immigrants were arriving from the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. The 1965 Immigration Act favored many people with educations and skills.

The first great generation of Puerto Rican migrants established communities in cities throughout the country, including Chicago, Philadelphia, and Newark, as well as in mid-Atlantic farm villages and the mill towns of New England. However, since the 1930s, the capital of Puerto Rican culture in the mainland U.S. has been New York City. Despite its great distance from the Caribbean, New York had long been the landing point of seagoing Puerto Ricans, and the airborne newcomers followed suit. The new migrants settled in great numbers in Northeast Manhattan, in a neighborhood that soon became known as Spanish Harlem. Although many had been farm workers in Puerto Rico, they know found themselves working in a wide variety of jobs, staffing the hospitals, the hotels, the garment factories, and the police departments of their new hometown, and they soon became a significant force in the city’s political and cultural life.

At the age of eight, the rest of my family moved to the U.S, it was not a completely foreign country to us, American movies were played in Filipino theaters and I’ve heard plenty of stories about the country through my parents. Surprisingly, although Philippines is one of the third world country, almost everyone can speak English due the fact that English is one the primary languages spoken alongside

Migrating onto the mainland, the first generation of Puerto Rican migrants established communities in cities throughout the country, including Chicago, Philadelphia, and Newark, as well as mid-Atlantic farm villages and the mill

A popular belief among immigrants is America is a place full of opportunities that leads to a “better life”. Most immigrants often come to America to escape from their poverty and hoping to find better jobs and a richer education. Instead antithesis to their American dream, they endured many hardships and discrimination. Among these people were the Filipinos, who thought that the streets of America were painted in gold and money was made out of tree before they arrive in the 1920s. Much like the African Americans and Mexicans, the Filipinos took on jobs that the whites did not want to work. Some of the common jobs were agriculture, canning, domestic work, migrant work and farming. Not only was there inequality with the color of the Filipinos

During the Industrial Era, there were twelve million immigrants who longed for the idea of freedom and to live among the free. Many immigrants came to America to live their lifelong dream, but instead they realized that America was not as utopian as it seemed from afar. America had been a countryside agricultural nation and had transformed into an industrial, urban, fast paced life in the city. There was a sudden change from farms to factories in a matter of years. Immigrants traveling from all over the world to California, New York, Chicago, Florida, and New Jersey, made these cities become the most popular unauthorized populations in the United States of America. More than two-thirds of the immigrants landed in New York. Most of the immigrants came from either Ireland, Germany, or England. A big chuck of their people fleeted because of crops dying due to natural causes, not enough land or job for works, famine, or religious and political persecution. Since 1880 the number of foreign born immigrants increased to nearly 14 million. These immigrants had to work tremendously hard in order to receive a small paycheck in the end of the day to support themselves or their entire family. Rather than being received with welcoming arms, along with a wealthy lifestyle, these immigrants instead found themselves living in a vicious cycle of poverty.