Aisan American Migration From Central Cities to Suburbs

ASIAN AMERICAN MIGRATION FROM CITIES TO SUBURBS

This research reviews the migration of Asian Americans from cities to suburbs. While such migration has not been extensive, the process is accelerating in the last decade of the twentieth century. Because Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing population groups in the United States, the extent of Asian American migration within the country is significant to the future demographic character of the country.

Formation of Immigrant Communities in the United States

The formation of ethnic communities of immigrants in the United States has always flown in the face of the so-called melting pot perception of the country. As the new waves of immigrants to the United States began in the mid-1960s from Latin America, Asia, and Africa, some analysts tended to see differences between them and the earlier immigrants from Europe, both as to the behavior of the immigrants themselves and as to their receptions in the United States.

Large-scale non-European migration to the United States was made possible by the Immigration Act of 1965. The previous immigration law held that new immigrants should reflect the ethnic composition of the American population at the time. The new immigration law held that the origins of new immigrants should not be determined by the ethnic composition of the American population, but rather by the push and pressures of those everywhere who hungered to enter. The Act prohibited more than

. This action was the quota applied to Japanese immigration to the United States that was included in the Immigration Act of 1924. Japanese immigration to the United States remained low until the beginning of the 1950s. At that time, a high proportion of Japanese women began immigrating to the United States, most of whom for a period of 10 years were the brides of American soldiers (Takaki 417). This female-dominated immigration in the 1950s continued the trend in the Japanese American population component toward gender balance. The Japanese American population had been dominantly male prior to 1950. The proportion of foreign-born to native-born Japanese Americans shifted toward a predominance for native-born between 1930 and 1940. Native-born dominance has become greater in subsequent decades. Assimilation in the United States Assimilation in American society has not accorded a great deal of significance to the culture and ethos of the people being assimilated (Gordon 68). Immigrant populations are expected to adopt the prevailing American culture and ethos during assimilation. Two factors work against the success of assimilation. First, most immigrants, in the long term at least, eventually rebel at the idea of being

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