Filipino Immigration to the U.S.
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In 1898, the United States defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War and the Philippines became a US territory, and the US began to recruit Filipinos into the US Navy (Claudio-Perez; Filipino). Between 1903 and 1934, 500,000 Filipino students came to the US to study in American schools - this was considered the First Wave of Filipino immigration. A heavy concentration of immigrants in this time went to California and Hawaii. Hawaii recruited Filipinos to work in the sugar plantations and 50,000 bachelor Filipinos arrived in San Francisco and Seattle to be employed as agricultural workers. By 1930, there were roughly 25,000 Filipinos in the US navy. In 1934, the US made the Philippines a commonwealth and limited immigration to the US to 50 Filipinos a year. In 1935, it passed the Repatriation Act which encouraged Filipinos to return to the Philippines. During the US engagement in World War II, there was fighting in the Philippines and many Filipinas became war brides, coming to the US with their husbands. The Second Wave of Filipino immigration took place between 1945 and 1965, when Congre
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