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Koreans in Central California (1903-1957): A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics

Koreans in Central California (1903-1957): A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics

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20th Century United States HistoryAsian American StudiesRegional: West

ISBN10: 0761852204
ISBN13: 9780761852209
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Oct 11 2010
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882. This treaty opened Korea to American missionaries who proselytized Christianity to the Koreans. When Hawaii sugar planters recruited Koreans to come to Hawaii to work in the Hawaii sugar plantations, they picked most of the Korean Hawaii emigrants from the Korean Christian converts. Between 1902 and 1905, some 7,000 of them immigrated to Hawaii. Of those 7,000, about 2,000 transmigrated to the mainland. Most of these Hawaii Korean trans-migrants settled on the West Coast, primarily in California. This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities: Fresno, Hanford, Visalia, Dinuba, Reedley, Delano, Willows, and Maxwell. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in early twentieth-century America, and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945).

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