Laws
This law changed the face of immigration in the 1960s.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965 (or the Immigration and Nationality Act or the Hart-Celler Act)
What is "more"?
Increasing women's work outside the house affected men in their families in this way.
What is loss of status and power? What is depression and anxiety?
A significant proportion of this group works in nursing and healthcare.
What are Filipinas/Filipinos.
The 1965 Immigration Act had seven preferences, including family reunification and the immigration of workers with needed skills along with one non-preference category for those who could what?
What is invest $40,000 in a business.
The 1965 Immigration Act is a legacy of this movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement.
It doubled from 1.5 million in 1970 to 3.7 million in 1980.
What is the Asian American population.
Asian immigrants engaged in this kind of work often exploited their own family members' labor.
What is small business/ethnic entrepreneurs.
The highest educated Asian ethnic group according to the 1990 US Census.
What is Indian Americans?
"It became harder and harder for my husband to put up with the _____ at work. He was always stressed out. This affected the whole family. The thing about ______ that always seemed weird was that he kept getting raises in terms of money but no promotions."
What is discrimination.
A 1970 immigration amendment allowed foreign workers to apply for this temporary visa that migrants could recieve in significantly less time than the occupational visa of the 1965 Immigration Act.
What is an H-1 visa?
The three major Asian groups Espiritu focuses on includes the highly educated, the disadvantaged, and ...
Espiritu focuses on relations between these two groups.
What is Asian American men and Asian American women.
What is refugees?
When you have to take care of your job and your home.
What is double (work) day/a double burden.
The reason there so many Asian American doctors and scientists in the U.S. by the 1990s
What is the preference system of the 1965 Immigration Act for highly skilled workers.
The dual nature or bifurcation of Asians in American after 1965 refers to this.
What class or economic status.
Asian men in professional class households tended to do more of this work.
What is participation in household labor/housework.
What are Japanese?
Many of the narratives of South Asian immigrants in Ceniza Choy's "1965: The Many Faces of Post-1965 Asian America" come from this archive.
What is SAADA--the South Asian American Digital Archive.
What is: a) unmarried children over age 21 of U.S. citizens; b) spouses adn unmarried children of permanent residents; c) professionals, scientists, and artists of "exceptional ability"; d) married children over age 21 of U.S. citizens; e) siblings of U.S. citizens; f) workers, skilled and unskilled, in occupations for which labor was in short supply in the United States and; g) refugees?
Asian migration since the 1960s was distinct from the earlier migration from Asia, including white collar professionals, Asian families moving permanently to the U.S., and what other distinction.
What is female migration/What is higher numbers of women immigrants.
Espiritu says that Asian immigrant women are overrepresented in these two industries in the 1990s.
What is microelectronics and the garment industry?
Asian immigrants have faced anti-Asian racism including this New Jersey-based anti-Indian hate group
What is the Dotbusters?
Akmal had never tried this before coming to the U.S.
What is a corn dog?