In, Out of this Furnace, Thomas Bell, argues that Slovak immigrants faced workplace exploitation social and political discrimination, had trouble assimilating to Americia.
Firstly Slovak immigrants faced discrimination in the workplace …show more content…
The Filipinos cooperation in WW2 lead them to become more accepted within the American consciences. to the In, Desert Exile,” Uchida’s Mom,” My contact with the white world was not totally closed off during my college years, however, for as a family we continued to have several close white friends. Ulchida Two of my mother’s closest friends were, by the strictures of Japanese etiquette,” Ulchida does not have many white friends in college she only dates Asian men. Similarly In, America is in the Heart, Carlos only had Filipino friends. Carlos described his relationship with his friends as a gangs or herds of men because there were few Filipino women who immigrated to the U.S before the 1924 immigration act made it virtually impossible for females to get work in on the 50 person quote a year ear man. The federal government wanted Filipino men to immigrate over and become migrant farm workers picking vegetable. The 1924 immigration Act helped spur the influx of Filipino labor to Hawaii which lead to the increase in California. The Act virtually stopped all Asian immigrants from immigrating to the United States. It also cut immigration quotes for Eastern Europeans like the Slovaks. The court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, states that people born in the U.S from illegal/