Those that came as contract laborers lived on the plantation that contracted them in plantation owned housing. (The housing may have compared favorably to the slave quarters of the deep South, but it remained inadequate at most locations in every way.)
Native Hawaiians are believed to be immigrants from Polynesia. There have been many immigrants from many countries, but today Hawaii is populated mostly by Native Hawaiians, the Japanese and Americans.
There are over 300 thousand Japanese people that live in Hawaii. It is around 45 percent of the stateÕs population.
Many reside in Hawaii.
Not all Japanese Americans were placed in Internment Camps, but the majority were. The ones that were not put in camps were generally Japanese immigrants who did not live near the Pacific.
The Filipinos came to Hawaii because they believed that they would get rich working in Hawaii. During the time the Filipinos were under the Spanish rule. They Spanish treated the Filipinos poorly. They decided to go to Hawaii and live a wealthy life.
mainlanders, Chinese, Japanese, native Hawaiians
Of course. Japanese immigrants, as well as Americans of Japanese descent, make both the state and city of New York their home.
The Japanese were persecuted because it was believed that every Japanese citizen was a "spy" for their "motherland." Be they first generation immigrants or have had the family live in a different country for many generations.
it wasn't so much of a normal migration but more of a migration due to work and in small groups at a time. They started the migration because they were needed in Hawaii to work in sugar cane plantations.
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Brought by immigrants.
1855