Berro (6) defines Syrian Americans as the Americans of the Syrian origin who were as a result of cultural integration among the Arameans, Circassians, Arabs and the Syrian Jews. Kira et al., (176) view that the majority of the New York and Boston cities. In addition, the United States Congress allowed the immigration bill act of 1924 which restricted immigration in the USA. The people from the Great Syria arrived in the United States from 1899-1919. Berro (7) believes that are several driving factors that pushed the Syrians to emigrate in the United States. The Syrians settled in America because they wanted to evade the Turkish conscription. Moreover, the Turkish wanted to achieve the American dream of personal success (ibid).
The chain immigration concept was apparent when the Syrians who achieved the financial freedom went back to convince the other Syrians to go to America as well. Berro (7) views that after numerous years of immigration in the great Syria, the population of the eligible males decreased. Nonetheless, the Ottoman Empire put restraints on the people who were caught migrating to the USA. Berro (7) presumes that the Johnson-Reed Quota Act reduced immigration situation in the Mediterranean region. Berro (8) presumes that the immigration of the Syrians is a continued practice in the Mediterranean area (ibid).
What part of the US have the most Syrian Americans?
Kira et al., (176) asserts that the New York City attracts the highest number of Syrian Americans immigrants. However, these immigrants have spread all over the United States, and their settlement patterns is evident in the urban areas. Additionally, the Atlantic Avenue in broad Brooklyn region has grown to become the official home for the Syrian Americans. Kira et al., (176) addresses that the Syrians in the Brooklyn preserved the culture of ethnic business and traditions. Notably, other areas that boast of a higher number of Syrians Americans compose of Detroit, Boston, California, and Michigan. Kira et al., (176) states that the past events of the merchants who traded in the New York area and settled to open business operations allowed the New York to host a large number of the Syrian Americans. New Orleans is another area that hosts a significant Syrian Americans populace from the ancient Asia. California and Los Angeles are the recent hubs for the Syrian Americans population (ibid).
An analysis of the Syrian Americans from the conflict perspective
Parillo (336) says that the ancient non-western immigrants offered notions of the logical thinking among the conflict theorists. The Syrian Americans offered cheaper labor for the industrialists as they immigrated to the United States. However, other employees resented their existence, feeling that their presence was a threat to the available job vacancies. The economic struggle between dual wage-level movements stirred ethnic antipathy and aversion. Parillo (336) gives his opinion that in the present times, the battles have arisen in the United States among the African Americans and Hispanics due to socio-economic differences (ibid).
Resentment progressed against the new immigrants whose recruitment seems to deny the increased mobility to the native-born minority groups. According to Parillo (336), the movement of the Syrian Americans to the White complexes and suburban neighbourhoods altered the cultural homogeneity which provoked hostilities among the natives and the new immigrants. Though the conflicts may be less extreme based on the Asian Americans than towards the initial waves of the immigrants. Parillo (336) posits that the occasional eruptions of a mass protest over the silk house building in a suburb community indicate a suggestion of the presence of tension and anger. The fear of more terrorist ambush pose an extra underlying tensions between the Syrian American community and the Native Americans (ibid).
Work Cited
Berro, Michael. "Forging Identities: Arab-Americans in the Pan-Arab Era." History 488 (2014): 489.
Kira, Ibrahim Aref, Mona M. Amer, and Nancy Howells Wrobel. "Arab refugees: Trauma, resilience, and recovery." Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Arab Americans. Springer US, 2014. 175-195.
Parrillo, Vincent N. "Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States, 8/e." Strangers to These Shores:. 4th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2006. 339. Print.
