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Immigration and the Asian-American Experience |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Xiao-huang Yin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 1,876 Words, 12,795 Characters |
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Over the past thirty years, the influx of Asian immigrants, which cuts across all levels of cultural, ethnic, and class identifications, has transformed the Asian-American community, making it predominantly first-generation and highly diverse. While the Asian-Pacific population in the United States grew from one million in 1965 to over nine million in 1995, the proportion of the native-born dropped from 60 percent to around 30 percent. The demographic transformation has also caused profound changes in the relative numerical strength of various Asian-American groups. Until the late 1950s, the Japanese were the largest group in the Asian communities, but immigration since the 1960s has moved the Chinese and the Filipinos far ahead of the Japanese and dramatically increased the populations of...
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...ng success as a discipline will depend on whether it can initiate a dialogue and set up an agenda that truly taps the strengths of the diverse Asian-American community. Only in this way can Asian-American studies transcend the divisions, become a discipline for discourse about the Asian-American experience, and contribute to the ongoing national dialogue on race relations in American society.
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