Chinese American

Sino - Americans are citizens of the United States, which were either born in China or have Chinese ancestors.

In 2000, about 2.3 million Sino - American living in the United States. This is approximately 22.4 % of all Asian Americans.

In San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Houston and many other American cities, lived until the mid-20th century a large part of the Chinese people in their own neighborhoods ( the so-called Chinatown ).

History

The first wave of immigration took place in 1848 during the California gold rush. Around 1880 there were about 130,000 Chinese in the United States, the majority of them in California, where they worked in railway construction and mining. Many white workers saw them as unwanted competitors and Lohndrücker. 1882 immigration from China was initially banned by Congress for ten years (Chinese Exclusion Act ). Later this law was extended ( Geary Act ). Only in 1943 were Chinese again immigrate to the United States ( Magnuson Act ).