Asian Diaspora, United States (< Spring, 2007, p.69)
U.S. Census 2000 includes 12 million Americans who identify themselves as Asian. The pie chart is courtesy of Asian Women in Business.
DIASPORA a group of people who share the experience of having left a common homeland and now live near each other in a new place
People from Asia came to work and did not make enough money to return.
Asians were 1 -2% of foreign-born; Europeans were 90%.
Chinese:  1850's arrival in time for the California Gold Rush (16K / 20K)
                  1860's transcontinental RR
                  1872 LA lynching
Japanese: 1689 law in Japan forbade emigration
                    1868 silk HI, then in CA
                    1885 - 1920 200K to HI; 180K to mainland
Korean:    1903 - 1920 8K to HI
India:       1907 - 1917 6K to US
Filipinos:  1907 - 1930 110K in HI and 40K on mainland
Discussion: Spring differs from The U.S. Census Bureau.
Discussion: The 2000–2010 U.S. Census (pdf) counts as Asian Americans/Pacific Islander people who have ethnic origins from islands bordering the Pacific Ocean: Filipino Americans, Indonesian Americans, Taiwanese Americans , Guamanian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Polynesian Americans, and Samoan Americans : "The term 'Asian' refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent..." including Pakistan.
Discussion: Turks? Arabs? Iranians? Northern Asians = Siberians not included in nomenclature
Selected Dates and Events of Asian Pacific American History
People from Asia came to work and did not make enough money to return.
Asians were 1 -2% of foreign-born; Europeans were 90%.
Chinese:  1850's arrival in time for the California Gold Rush (16K / 20K)
                  1860's transcontinental RR
                  1872 LA lynching
Japanese: 1689 law in Japan forbade emigration
                    1868 silk HI, then in CA
                    1885 - 1920 200K to HI; 180K to mainland
Korean:    1903 - 1920 8K to HI
India:       1907 - 1917 6K to US
Filipinos:  1907 - 1930 110K in HI and 40K on mainland
Discussion: Spring differs from The U.S. Census Bureau.
Discussion: The 2000–2010 U.S. Census (pdf) counts as Asian Americans/Pacific Islander people who have ethnic origins from islands bordering the Pacific Ocean: Filipino Americans, Indonesian Americans, Taiwanese Americans , Guamanian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Polynesian Americans, and Samoan Americans : "The term 'Asian' refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent..." including Pakistan.
Discussion: Turks? Arabs? Iranians? Northern Asians = Siberians not included in nomenclature
Selected Dates and Events of Asian Pacific American History
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
McGraw-Hill, 2007
https://books.google.com/books/about/Deculturalization_and_the_Struggle_for_E.html?id=rH7uAAAAMAAJ
https://books.google.com/books/about/Deculturalization_and_the_Struggle_for_E.html?id=rH7uAAAAMAAJ