This experience was extremely interesting for our group because we are all immigrants or the children of immigrants. We were able to relate to the stories that these shop owners shared with us. Even with the history and the research we did, most of us did not have any idea about the background of Asian …
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A brief history of Japanese immigration to Seattle
History by Devika Gandhay Interview by Anne Lin Japan and Washington have always had a very amicable trading relationship mainly due to their closer proximity compared to other big trading ports in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This influenced the increase in the population of Japanese In Washington, which by “1900 the number was …
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A brief history of Vietnamese immigration to Seattle
History by Devika Gandhay Interview by Runjing Li The Vietnamese first began arriving in Washington after the fall of Saigon to communist forces in 1975. With the Refugee Act of 1980, the United States made it easier for Vietnamese refugees to enter and live in the country. (Wieder, 1996) The population scattered with bigger factions …
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A brief history of Chinese immigration to Seattle
History by Devika Gandhay Interview by Aiden Lin The Chinese first came to the Pacific Northwest with the discovery of gold in rivers in the 1850’s. (“Timeline”, n.d.) There had been a famine in a large province of China called Guangdung, so many families began transplanting to California for the Gold Rush. Soon after, they …
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THE INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT: the asian american immigrant experience 