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This 5 page paper discusses the book "American Workers, Colonial Power" by Dorothy Fujita-Rony, and how the Filipino experience parallels – and differs from – that of other Asian immigrants. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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particular, the saga of the Chinese who came to work on the railroads is well-known. We are also aware of the more recent Vietnamese immigrants, but to a lesser
extent. Almost no one knows about the Filipinos who came to America, though of course we have close ties to the Philippines particularly since World War II. This
paper explores some of the issues facing the Filipino migrants, how they differed from other Asian migrants, and how they resembled them. Discussion Its interesting to explore the
differences and similarities of the Filipino immigrant experience with that of other Asian groups, because the differences in particular are striking. But well start with the similarities. Perhaps
the most basic (and obvious) similarity between the Filipinos and the other Asian migrants to the U.S. is the fact that they are clearly identified as belonging to an ethnic
group other than white Americans. That made them a target of the same kind of racial prejudice as the other groups. They were also similar to the
other groups in that most of the immigrants were men; the 1930 census found that the ratio of men to women in Washington State was 15:1; "out of a total
of 3,450 Filipina/os, roughly 3,200 were men (Fujita-Rony, 2003, p. 134). This is not surprising, as it was a pattern for Asian men to leave their families at home
while they came alone to America to work. They were also similar to the other groups in that they were subjected to containment and exclusion policies, though
the efforts made to control the Filipinos werent as stringent as measures enacted against other groups. In a backlash of racism and fear, the U.S. passed the Chinese Exclusion
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