Japanese And Chinese Immigration And The Hart-Cellar Act Of 1965

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Japanese and Chinese immigration was made possible by the passage of the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 and the repeal of exclusion acts two decades before. Chinese immigrants today constitute the second largest immigrant group in New York City (U. S. Census Bureau 2010). Following the New York economic crisis in the 1970s and subsequent depressed property values, the Flushing area offered these new groups opportunities to move in and establish new a new retail and commercial base. Taiwanese immigrants established the first Asian immigrant foothold in Flushing and revitalized the area. In this period, many Taiwanese immigrants bypassed Manhattan’s Chinatown for Flushing because they did not identify with its working-class Cantonese culture. Other

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