Chinese immigration
Eastern diaspora movement
Chinese immigration refers to the movement of people from China to other countries, particularly significant in American history.
The term often evokes the 19th-century waves of laborers who built railroads and worked mines, followed by exclusionary laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Chinese immigration shaped the demographics of California.
The phrase appears in discussions of both historical discrimination and contemporary migration patterns.
- remittancesPayments sent abroad
- Opium WarsColonial drug-trade conflicts
- ChinatownsChinese immigrant neighborhoods
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
- California Gold RushMid-century mining frenzy westward
racial profiling · visa restrictions · head tax · entrepreneurship · diplomatic treaties · detention center · railroad · tea trade · transcontinental railroad · railroad construction · language barriers · sworn brotherhood · laundry · dim sum · silk trade · trade agreements · tea · mining industry
- Malaysian HistoryMalay Peninsula, Malaya, sultanates, sultans, Japanese occupation
- MalayaKuala Lumpur, Penang, sultans, rubber plantations, tin mining
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