The Asian immigration is composed of two main eras, that is, the post 1965 immigrants and the post 1975 refugees. The immigration effect areas a result of both voluntary and involuntary aspects of life in their own countries of origin. The immigrants bearing the Asian identity have en flowing into the US constituting more than 40 percent of the total immigrants in the US. In relation to the post 1965 immigrants, the immigrants came from countries like China, Taiwan, Korea, japan and Philippines. The Chinese composed most of the Asian immigrants in the United States who were after the gold rush. The Chinese therefore desired the gold at the West coast of America. This therefore made them stream into the US in search of such gold as well working at the gold mines in the US. The post 1965 immigration had effects on the quality of labor on the US which in turn influenced the productivity of the economy. Many questions were therefore raised in relation to the quality of labor provided by the Asian immigrants and how it could be tackled in order to reduce the negative effects on the economy of the US. The claims of lower quality of labor in the post 1965 immigrants was proved wrong because the immigrants were found to be more academically qualified than the natives(Takaki,2013). The post 1965 immigrants were mainly after employment opportunities in the US as well as trade activities. The search for employment opportunities and trading activities therefore accounts for the voluntary movement of the people from their countries of origin to the foreign lands.
The post 1975 refugees also accounted greatly for the Asians movement to the US in order to seek refuge to political instabilities and the effects of the cold war effects in the Asian countries. After the end of the Vietnam War, most of the people migrated to the US in order to flee from hunger and poverty in their country which was totally destroyed by the war. The Vietnamese were therefore forced to move into their neighborhood in order to seek peace and comfort as well as food in such countries. Most of the Vietnamese immigrants in the US stays in Texas, California, Florida and Washington. The war therefore accounts for the involuntary movement from people from their own countries in order to seek refuge and peace in the neighboring countries. The oppression and persecution therefore led to the involuntary movement.
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality act played a major role in the history of Asian-American immigrants in relation to the process of entering the US. Policies were put in place in order to ensure that formal requirements and procedures were met by the immigrants in order to regulate the influx of immigrants. The Act aimed at making the regulations less stringent in order to adopt its global political view or perspective. This was also meant to allow the victims of the World War II to migrate to the US and seek refuge (Takaki, 2013). The Act therefore provided freedom of entrance to the US in order to promote the international integration since it is a superpower. This was also meant to open the borders in order to allow the people to move into the US to conduct their business activities as well as seek job opportunities.
In conclusion, the Asian immigration was cause both by the involuntary movements as well as the voluntary movements of people into the foreign countries. The Asian immigration initially was cause by the movement of people to the countries like the US in search of job opportunities as well as the desire for gold rush in the US. The people were also forced to move involuntary due to the effects of the World War II. The migration of Asians to the Nationality and Immigration Act of 1965 which opened the borders for free movement into the US in order to promote international relations and integration.
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