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This 5 page paper discusses the book "American Workers, Colonial Power" by Dorothy Fujita-Rony, and how the Filipino experience parallels – and differs from – that of other Asian immigrants. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the Chinese who came to work on the railroads is well-known. We are also aware of the more recent Vietnamese immigrants, but to a lesser extent. Almost no
one knows about the Filipinos who came to America, though of course we have close ties to the Philippines particularly since World War II. This paper explores some of
the issues facing the Filipino migrants, how they differed from other Asian migrants, and how they resembled them. Discussion Its interesting to explore the differences and similarities of
the Filipino immigrant experience with that of other Asian groups, because the differences in particular are striking. But well start with the similarities. Perhaps the most basic (and
obvious) similarity between the Filipinos and the other Asian migrants to the U.S. is the fact that they are clearly identified as belonging to an ethnic group other than white
Americans. That made them a target of the same kind of racial prejudice as the other groups. They were also similar to the other groups in that
most of the immigrants were men; in 1930, the "peak year" for immigration to Washington State, there were 3,374 men and 106 women (Swartout, 2004). This is not surprising,
as it was a pattern for Asian men to leave their families at home while they came alone to America to work. They were also similar to
the other groups in that they were subjected to containment and exclusion policies, though the efforts made to control the Filipinos werent as stringent as measures enacted against other groups.
In a backlash of racism and fear, the U.S. passed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, "which forbade the immigration of Chinese workers for ten years" (Fujita-Rony, 2003, p.
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