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Some Filipino immigrants arrived in the United States as early as the mid-1700s, but most immigrants came after 1900. Changes in U.S. agricultural techniques on the West Coast and in Hawaii created a high demand for labor. While persons from many countries were recruited to work in Hawaiian sugar cane plantations, Filipinos were the best source of labor because the Philippines was under U.S. administration for the first few decades of the twentieth-century. Between 1900 and 1930 over 63,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawaii and over 45,000 Filipinos immigrated to the mainland. Two excellent histories of immigration to the United States are: | Some Filipino immigrants arrived in the United States as early as the mid-1700s, but most immigrants came after 1900. Changes in U.S. agricultural techniques on the West Coast and in Hawaii created a high demand for labor. While persons from many countries were recruited to work in Hawaiian sugar cane plantations, Filipinos were the best source of labor because the Philippines was under U.S. administration for the first few decades of the twentieth-century. Between 1900 and 1930 over 63,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawaii and over 45,000 Filipinos immigrated to the mainland. Two excellent histories of immigration to the United States are: | ||
Mangiafico Luciano. ''Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns of Filipino, Korean, and Chinese Settlement in the United States''. New York, NY, USA: Praeger, 1988. (FHL book 973W2m.) | * Mangiafico Luciano. ''Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns of Filipino, Korean, and Chinese Settlement in the United States''. New York, NY, USA: Praeger, 1988. (FHL book 973W2m.) | ||
Bautista, Veltisezar. ''The Filipino Americans, from 1763 to the Present: Their History, Culture, and Traditions''. Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA: Bookhaus Publishers, 1998. (FHL book 973 F2bau.) | * Bautista, Veltisezar. ''The Filipino Americans, from 1763 to the Present: Their History, Culture, and Traditions''. Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA: Bookhaus Publishers, 1998. (FHL book 973 F2bau.) | ||
The Family History Library has several other good reference books that describe early Filipino immigration to the United States: | The Family History Library has several other good reference books that describe early Filipino immigration to the United States: | ||
Saito, Shiro. ''The Overseas Filipinos: A Working Bibliography''. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: University of Hawaii, 1974. (FHL book 959.9 A3t.) | * Saito, Shiro. ''The Overseas Filipinos: A Working Bibliography''. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: University of Hawaii, 1974. (FHL book 959.9 A3t.) | ||
Lasker, Bruno. ''Filipino Immigration to Continental United States and to Hawaii'', Volume 31. New York, New York, USA: Arno Press, 1969. (FHL book 973 B4ai; fiche 6101684.) | * Lasker, Bruno. ''Filipino Immigration to Continental United States and to Hawaii'', Volume 31. New York, New York, USA: Arno Press, 1969. (FHL book 973 B4ai; fiche 6101684.) | ||
Alcantara, Ruben R., Nancy S. Alcantara, and Cesar S. Wycoco. ''The Filipinos in Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography.'' Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii, 1972. (FHL book 996.9 F23a; film 1697759 item 7.) | * Alcantara, Ruben R., Nancy S. Alcantara, and Cesar S. Wycoco. ''The Filipinos in Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography.'' Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii, 1972. (FHL book 996.9 F23a; film 1697759 item 7.) | ||
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