Coming to America: Chapter 13,14, & 15

     I felt that chapter 13 was somewhat dull compared to other chapters that we read. The text talks about more of the immigration laws and restrictions applied to certain ethnicity's. What I found interesting was the U.S's stance on refugees. it was shocking to see that the number of former Nazi's allowed into America compared to the small number of 140,000 Jewish refugees into the country. I feel that this stance on refugees had to change and the American government and President finally saw the impact of not allowing these refugees.

      I also didn't realized the impact of the number of legal immigrants which was higher than the number limited in the quota system. Because family members were allowed to legally come to America, they were not counted in the government's quota system. This lead to the larger increase in population that the government intended.

     In the next chapter, the Japanese and Chinese immigration grew with their women population. Many Japanese women had come to America to marry non-Japanese soldiers. About 45,000 Japanese women came to America, 40,000 of those women married. 

     The Filipinos also immigrated being American Nationals, but were restricted form becoming citizens. I also didn't realize that the Filipino migration was mostly female at the beginning, which was the opposite of other immigrations. Later, Filipino immigrants got jobs within the medical industry as  nurses, or other medical positions. 

     While many of the immigrants from chapter 15 are form the Caribbean, Central America of Soviet Jews, they have all come to America and worked in agriculture or business. Many of these groups still traveled to common areas so that their culture could strive and have other people with their same religion, values, and background in the same community. Much of  this was seen in the previous chapters as migration areas became popular for certain ethnic groups and formed their own communities. This is partially why there are places like Japan town, China town, Little Saigon for the Vietnamese and more.

I see this  a lot in the area I live in. At first many of the stores and shopping centers became "Asian" markets, restaurants or stores which cater to Korean, Chinese, or Japanese. Now, down the street, there are many Indian restaurants, cash and carry's, markets, clothing stores and etc. to also cater to those different Indian groups. I feel this i a way for the immigrants in any time period to feel comfortable and create their own community within America, which some call their new home.