Filipino immigrants
During the late twentieth century, Filipinos became one of the fastestgrowing immigrant populations in the United States.
View ArticleFilipino Repatriation Act of 1935
This federal law provided free transportation for Filipino residents of the continental United States who wished to return home but could not afford to do so.
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Hmong immigrants
The Hmong are one of the most recent Asian immigrant groups to come to the United States. Their main home is in the northern mountain regions of Laos.
View ArticleIndochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975
Strongly supported by President Gerald R. Ford and opposed by those who feared an influx of Southeast Asian refugees after the end of the conflict in Vietnam
View ArticleIndonesian immigrants
Indonesia is made up of a large number of populated islands located south of Southeast Asia’s Malay Peninsula.
View ArticleIndonesian immigrants: Barack Obama and Indonesia
Although Indonesia’s ties with the United States have historically been limited, the Southeast Asian nation has a special connection with the forty-fourth president of the United States.
View ArticleIranian immigrants
Iranian immigration to the United States is a recent phenomenon and has taken place primarily since 1975.
View ArticleIranian immigrants: Revolution and Immigration
Much of the immigration from Iran to the United States resulted from political unrest in Iran and as a consequence of people fleeing the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 and the creation of the Islamic...
View ArticleIranian immigrants: Iranians in the United States
By 2007, the geographic concentration of Iranian immigrants had grown greater.
View ArticleIsraeli immigrants
The state of Israel was established only in 1948, and much of its own population growth has come about through Jewish emigration from the United States and Europe.
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