Greek Americans & Japanese Americans
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The United States is a nation of immigrants. Only the Native Americans are indigenous to this continent, and at some point in their history they may also have come to this region from Asia across the Bering Strait or by some other means. In this century, consecutive waves of immigration from different parts of the world created tensions with Americans already living in this country, for they believed that the immigrants were taking their jobs, gorging the welfare roles, and somehow reducing their overall standard of living. Even many of those who support the values immigrants bring with them have emphasized that no nation can allow unfettered crossings of its borders and that some sort of immigration policy has to be set in place and enforced, though there may be large differences among groups as to what is an acceptable policy. Different national and ethnic groups have encountered different problems, different forms of discrimination, and different legal issues in the course of their immigration experience. Japanese-Americans and Greek-Americans are two such ethnic groups whose experiences can be contrasted to show how each was treated and what sorts of concerns each community has had in terms of immigration and assimilation into American society. Changes in the way immigrants have been treated through the course of U.S. history has involved at least partially changes in the composition of the immigrant population in terms of where the immig
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s and children of illegal immigrants granted amnesty under the 1986 law are also entitled to become residents, and special consideration is given to Irish people, Hong Kong residents, certain groups from Lebanon, Tibetan nationals, and Filipino World War II veterans The refugee policy was expanded to include people fleeing war or natural disasters, such as earthquakes (DeMoss, 1991, 35-36).
GREEK-AMERICANS
Greeks were represented in the wave of European immigrants in the nineteenth century. The vast majority of those immigrants settled in the northeastern section of the United States, roughly delineated by Washington in the southeast, St. Louis in the southwest, the Mississippi River to the west, Canada to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Two-thirds of the immigrants went to New York, New England, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; relatively few went to the South. The major cities were especially attractive because of the job situation and also because of their location as major transportation depots. Cities like New York and Chicago were also already inhabited by compatriots who could help the immigrants adjust to the New World. Most of the immigrants of that time were male--95 percent of the Greeks were male,
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)
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