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Title: Filipino Americans

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Filipino Americans Filipino Americans make up the second largest Asian group in the United States, after Chinese Americans (see chapter 12 ). According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there were 1, 864, 120 Filipino Americans and an estimated 2, 385, 216 people with at least some Filipino ancestry (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2003). Most of those who identified themselves as Filipino only were relatively new to this country, as were most other Asian Americans. Immigrants from the Philippines in 2000 numbered 1, 222, 000, or 4.3% of all foreign-born people, making them the nation's third largest immigrant nationality, outnumbered only by Mexicans (27.7% of foreign born) and Chinese (4.9%) (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2003). Located across the China Sea from mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines consists of more than 7, 000 islands stretched over a distance of more than a thousand miles...

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Authors: Bankston, Carl L.

Editors: Pyong Gap Min,

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Volume Title: Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues

Publisher: Pine Forge Press

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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