Immigration of Asian Women After WWII

What Espiritu describes as ôengenderedö structures of relationships between Asian men and women in the U.S. and of the relationship between the dominant culture and Asian women is the focus of her analysis of the impact of the predominance of Asian women over Asian men as immigrants to the U.S. in recent years. She constructs her discussion around three economic sectors into which immigration patterns of Asian women fall: highly educated, disadvantaged, and entrepreneurial (62). She sees differences in the American experience for women in each of these three categories. But in the background of all Asian womenÆs immigrant experience of America, whatever the socioeconomic category, are the facts of American immigration policy since 1965, when the Immigration Act of that year ôequalized immigration rights for all nationalitiesö (61). In particular, the 1965 act ôallowed women to enter the United States as occupational immigrantsö (63). Whereas formerly

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status of Asian women immigrants in terms of specific economic categories. What is most startling in EspirituÆs analysis is the correlation between economic category and the status, priorities, and experience of Asian immigrant women vis-a-vis Asian immigrant men. In other words, the everyday socioeconomic reality of Asian immigrant women can be taken as an index of the effect the womenÆs very presence in the U.S. has had on their own experience and on the experience of and structure of Asian immigrants as a whole and as family configurations. The most material options seem available to Asian immigrant women who can be categorized as highly educated. One aspect of this is the measurable impact that Asian Americans as a group have had on the technological structure of the U.S.; Asian-origin scientists and engineers accounted for up to seven percent of the American technology labor pool even though Asians accounted for only three percent of the American population as a whole (Espiritu 66). Asian women, particularly Filipinas, are highly visible as nurses, for reasons above cited. However, Asian women doctors and other college-educated Asian women appear to be economically marginalized relative to white men. Espiritu cites figures s
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