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Chinese Immigration Patterns Essay

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At the start if the immigration from China to the U.S. the Chinese immigrants had tend to immigrate to the east coast. But around 1970’s the immigration had turned towards the west coast. Though the numbers were still high in the east with major cities there. At the time in 1880 to 1940, the Chinese immigrants were halted by the The Chinese Exclusion Act. From this act it only exempt (allowed) merchants, diplomats, teachers and students to the U.S. Once the act had ended in 1947 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was pass, then immigration number had started to increase, more so in the west coast (Chinese Immigration to America). In 2000 it had the most immigration on the”Immigration Explorer.”

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Also the Chinese immigrants came to America in order to send money back to China to support their families. The Chinese immigrants also had to pay back to the merchants who had brought the to the U.S. Since paying back the merchants it had left them with little to no money, requiring them to take low paid jobs. Other groups of Chinese immigrants also consist of Chinese immigrant that seeked education from U.S. colleges and universities who sponsored their visas. The students usually stay for the better pay and the new opportunities (Immigration Library).

Job and Location With America having rapid industrialization made it a destination for the Chinese immigrants. The Chinese immigrant at first had settled mostly in the west in california. This group was soon pushed out and settled in the larger cities which consist of San Francisco, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle. As the Americans became more adapted to the Chinese, they had started to move away from the larger cities (Immigration Library). Around the 19th century, the Chinese immigrant were contract laborers. Their job consist of extremely dangerous and unskilled positions in the fields of mining, railroad construction, agriculture, irrigation, and manufacturing (Immigration

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