History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots by Jonathan Lee

Author:Jonathan Lee [Lee, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2015-01-15T22:00:00+00:00

FIRST WAVE

After the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain in 1898, Filipinos arrived in Hawai‘i and the continental United States for work and education. Two categories of Filipinos arrived during the first wave: students and laborers. In addition, indigenous Filipinos were exhibited at two world fairs. U.S. occupation of the Philippines allowed Filipinos to come, as Steffi San Buenaventura notes, with “ ‘ward’ status without citizenship rights … a very convenient solution to the problem of not having to assimilate a ‘barbarous’ people living in a distant U.S. territory in the Pacific” (1998, 7). Filipinos who journeyed to the United States from 1903 to 1935 reflect a movement of “subjugated ‘nationals’ who were highly motivated to pursue their expanded colonial boundaries abroad” (San Buenaventura 1998, 21).

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