Major waves of
migration
- 1st
wave- During the first wave from 1903 to the beginning of World War II,
many young men emigrated to the U.S. to enrol in universities there.
Many of them returned.
- 2nd wave -The second wave occurred from
1907-1930's bringing plantation workers to Hawaii. From 1920-1934
workers were also immigrating to the West Coast.
- 3rd
wave - The third wave occurred after WWII. During the late 1940s and
50s. This group included war brides and the "1946 boys."
- 4th
wave- The fourth and largest wave occurred after the 1965 Immigration
Act was passed.
From which regions of the
Philippines did they leave?
- Luzon's
northwestern Ilocano provinces supplied many of the laborers to the
Hawaiian sugar plantations because of economic hardship and overpopulation
in that area.
Where did Filipino Immigrants Settle?
- By 1930
there were 63,052 Filipinos in Hawaii, 30,470 in California, 3,480 in
Washington and 1,982 in New York.
- Recent immigratns
moved to major cities of the United States where there were better
employment opportunities. There are large concentrations of
Filipinos in Queens and Westchester County in New York and Jersey City,
Riverdale and Bergen County in New Jersey.
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