BY 1920, 5,603 FILIPINOS LIVED IN ALASKA OR ON THE MAILAND AS YOUNG FILIPINOS. JUST UNDER FOUR THOUSAND RESIDED ON THE PACIFIC COAST-OF THESE 2,674 LIVED IN CALIFORNIA. 958 IN WASHINGTON. MOST OF THE 1920 IMMIGRANTS HAD LITTLE FORMAL EDUCATION AND SPOKE NIETHER ENGLISH NOR SPANISH. THEY WORKED IN WEST COAST AGRICULTURE AND SOME WERE SERVANTS OR IN HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS, AND SOME LABORED IN ALASKA SALMON CANNERIES.
IN 1934 THE TYDINGS-MCDUFFIE ACT OF 1934 BROUGHT IMMIGRATION TO A HALT. THERE WERE QUOTAS ON THE AMOUNT OF FILIPINOS MIGRATING TO THE UNTIED STATES. BUT BY THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR 2 IMMIGRATION TO THE MAINLAND UNITED STATES HAD STABILIZED AT A VERY LOW LEVEL. AFTER THE WAR IMMIGRATION RESUMED AND THE NUMBER OF ARRIVALS KEPT INCREASING FROM A 1948 LEVEL OF 1,122 TO THE EARLY 1960"S WHEN THE ANNUAL RATE HAD REACHED THREE THOUSAND. BETWEEN 1940 AND 1960 FILIPNIO IMMIGARTION POPULATION WITHIN THE UNITED STATES INCREASED BY ALMOST 78,000.
THE IMMIGRANTS OF THE 1960"S AND 1970"S WERE VASTLY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE WHO HAD COME FIFTY TO SIXTY YEARS EARLIER. AFTER 1965, BOTH MNALE AND FEMALES WERE ATTRACTED TO THE UNITED STATES . MANY WERE WELL EDUCATED. THE INLFUX CONSISTED OF FAMILIES WHICH CONTRIBUTED LARGE NUMBERS OF SCHOOL AGE YOUTH AND SENIOR CITIZENS.
IN SEVENTY YEARS OF MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, FILIPINO IMMIGRANTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PLAGUED BY ADJUSMENT PROBLEMS AND HAVE FOUNBD IT DIFFICULT TO LOCATE AND KEEP SUITABLE EMPLOYEMENT. AS A COLOR-VISIBLE MINORITY, THEY HAVE CONTINUALLY ENCOUNTERED PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION AS THEY PURSUED THEIR OBJECTIVES-ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL. MANY FILIPNIO"S HAVE ACHIEVED THEIR GOALS AND CONINUE TO MIGRATE. .
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PHILLIPINES HAD PROVIDED RELATIVELY FEW IMMIGRANTS BEFORE 1965.
AN ARCHIPELAGO KOF ABOUT 7100 ISLANDS, THE PHILLIPINES STRETCH FOR 1152 MILES IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH ARC FROM THE BATAN ISLANDS IN THE NORTH, SIXTY FIVE MILES FROM TAIWAN, AND ONLY 30 MILES FROM BORNEO.
