Asian Emigration Patterns, Similarities, and Perspectives essays

Asian Emigration Patterns, Similarities, and Perspectives essays Meantime, the first pattern of arrivals of Asians to America - in any significant numbers - were the Chinese, in who were pushed out of their homeland but also drawn to the opportunities for employment in Hawaii, the American West, and British Columbia. There were also Korean, Filipino and Japanese immigrants who followed a second pattern, which was bolstered by a vigorous recruitment effort on the part of sugar plantation owners in Hawaii. The cultivation of sugar was a growth industry in Hawaii, and workers were needed, and were welcomed from those three Asian nations. The third pattern of Asian immigrants mentioned by the author was groups of "Asian Indians" (people from the northwestern region of India) who purchased passage to Canada and the Pacific Coast of America. These three patterns of immigration into the U.S. and Canada, by Asians from five different nations were only a small part of a much larger "global phenomenon" occurring in this time period - and the author describes it thoroughly on page 4. "The capitalist form of production, under which goods are produced for sale in order to make the largest profit possible and workers receive wages for selling their labor," appeared first in England, then elsewhere in Western Europe, and then in the United States. Workers were moved across "national boundaries to enable entrepreneurs to exploit natural resources in more and more parts of the world," Chan continues. The colonial governments such as England, in many cases, were not hesitant to bring in workers from the far corners of the globe when the indigenous populations in those conquered colonies could not provide a sufficient workforce for the exploitation of the natural resources in those colonies. That was a large part of the global phenomenon of workers moving from place to place - beyond the basic emigration which was already taking place...