Twinkling stars off in the distant sky shine as a symbol of hope. Hope for those who dream for a better way of living, and a new beginning. Thus this dream would soon be a reality for people of Asian ethnicity, but would prove to be far more difficult then imagined. The road that lied ahead would b...

Almost every immigration group to the United States has at some time experienced discrimination on a large scale. Asian immigration has been the subject of discrimination within American society, most notably the Chinese and the Japanese diasporas. For a long time, both of these groups have been the...

The United States of America are considered a nation of immigrants, most of them having traditionally come from Europe. Therefore, the Whites form the ethnic majority, but African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans all having their own way of life have influenced the American culture, which w...

The simple dispute for immigration issues in Wausau became a complex dilemma after the major migration of the Hmong Asians. People of Wausau did not clearly understand the meaning of Immigration and all of its complexities. People first believed that the immigrants were decent and was under cont...

A Changing America The 1920's, one of the most important era's in American history. It carried high prestige because of the fact that the 1920's changed everything, from the way people thought about themselves to the way people had fun and kept themselves entertained. It was an era...

A Changing America The 1920's, one of the most important era's in American history. It carried high prestige because of the fact that the 1920's changed everything, from the way people thought about themselves to the way people had fun and kept themselves entertained. It was an era...

A Changing America The 1920's, one of the most important era's in American history. It carried high prestige because of the fact that the 1920's changed everything, from the way people thought about themselves to the way people had fun and kept themselves entertained. It was an era...

Bob Marley said, "Better to die to fight for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life." Those words set precedence to some of the most fundamental principles that our nation was built upon. Immigrants who fought to set themselves free of dictatorship built this nation. The sentiment, h...

What it means to be an immigrant? In the Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska, tells the story of life as an immigrant in the Untied States, particularly immigrant women's pursuit of the American Dream. For many immigrants, the U.S. was the key to a better life, a life free of economic depression and r...

From 1860 to 1900 nearly 15 million "new immigrants" came to America from the Southern and Eastern European countries of Italy, Poland, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Greece, Turkey, and Syria. Of these "new immigrants" most were single, young men with few job skills. This differed from the immigratio...

Old and New Immigrants, Birds of Passage, and True Immigrants Historians have divided immigration to the United States into two categories: old and new immigrants. With population increases in almost every European country due to advances in medicine and public health standards resulti...