Chinese American Immigrants isolation

(Frost 825). With globalization, people got exposed to the world and as a result, have begun to appreciate diversity. That notwithstanding, research indicates that immigrants and minority societies still face discrimination which means a lot still needs to do. This paper seeks to analyze the issue of social stigma and in particular tribal stigma for Chinese Americans. This context scrutinizes the history of Chinese immigrants in America as well as their settlement and development patterns after that. Immigrant Chinese communities have been in the U. S. for nearly two decades making them the oldest ethnic group of Asian ancestry in the U. S. Over time, they have undergone drastic changes in both time and space (Zhou and Lin). S. citizenship through naturalization and hence would permanently remain as aliens (SurveyLA 15).

This Act was reviewed severally, and in 1902, there were new provisions that required even the Chinese American immigrants who had settled in America to register and obtain certificates of residence or face deportation. The second period of immigration was mainly by diplomats, merchants, and students with the third period being after the civil rights movement of the 1960s (Wan). During that period, the Chinese American immigrants lived and worked in challenging and unsafe conditions. This trend continued as in the US, 50% of the ethnic Chinese population lives in those three metropolitan regions (Zhou and Lin). As of 2015, according to the American Community Survey, the population of Chinese Americans in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Jose was 549181, 179644, 77284 and 72141 respectively (Pew Research Center).

As of 2016, according to data from the U. S. Census Bureau, the population of the Chinese immigrant population in the U. Chinese American immigrants, in particular, faced a lot of racial stigmas when they first moved to the United States. History indicates that the first batch of the Chinese immigrants arrived at the US between 1849 and 1882. The other shipments came in two periods: 1882-1965 and 1965 to date. The Chinese immigrants mostly worked in gold mines as well as in the road construction (Transcontinental Railroad). As the population of the Chinese immigrants increased, they encountered massive discrimination from their white counterparts. How Racism Created America’s Chinatowns. 06 December 2017. 12 December 2018 <https://www. huffingtonpost. com/2014/11/11/american-chinatowns-history_n_6090692. pewsocialtrends. org/fact-sheet/asian-americans-chinese-in-the-u-s/>. SurveyLA. "LOS ANGELES CITYWIDE HISTORIC CONTEXT STATEMENT Context: Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, 1850-1980.