Chapter 14

Chapter 14 focuses on the later immigration of Asians, at this time the Asian countries from which people immigrate become more diverse, with countries such as Vietnam, instead of just simply China and Japan. This chapter helped me a great deal when I was writing my Ancestry Paper, many of the earlier family members immigrated from China during the 1960s. The aspect of the chapter that interested me the most was the concentration of the immigration of people from the Philippines because it is a form of immigration that prior to this class I knew nothing about. It is hard for me to believe that immigration from the Philippines was not taught in my previous history classes. The part I found to be the most interesting was the eclectic reasons that people had for wanting to immigrate, there were push as well as pull factors. A second that I found interesting was the high number of well educated people who came over, or came over on student visas. This is so different from the previous groups of migration that we have seen so far.