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The first major wave of Romanian immigration to the United States took place between 1895 and 1920, in which 145,000 Romanians entered the country. They came from various regions such as Moldavia , Bukovina , and Transylvania , and neighboring countries such as Ukraine and Serbia with significant ethnic Romanian populations. [ 11 ]
Pages in category "Romanian emigrants to the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 358 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Kalderash first arrived in the United States in the 1880s. Many of them came from Austria-Hungary, Russia and Serbia, as well as from Italy, Greece, Romania and Turkey. The arrival of the Kalderash, rudari and the other subgroups of Romani at this time more or less wiped out the Roma who had arrived in United States during the colonial period.
The Great Depression began in the United States of America and quickly spread worldwide. [42] It had severe effects in countries both rich and poor. Personal income, consumption, industrial output, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%.
In 1932, President Hoover and the State Department essentially shut down immigration during the Great Depression as immigration went from 236,000 in 1929 to 23,000 in 1933. This was accompanied by voluntary repatriation to Europe and Mexico, and coerced repatriation and deportation of between 500,000 and 2 million Mexican Americans , mostly ...
Two men who allegedly posed as immigration agents and threatened to deport Latino street vendors and day laborers during a series of robberies in Orange County have been charged with hate crimes ...
The history of immigration to the United States details the movement of people to the United States from the colonial era to the present day. Throughout U.S. history , the country experienced successive waves of immigration , particularly from Europe (see European Americans ) and later on from Asia (see Asian Americans ) and Latin America (see ...
Immigration patterns of the 1930s were affected by the Great Depression. In the final prosperous year, 1929, there were 279,678 immigrants recorded, [ 47 ] but in 1933, only 23,068 moved to the U.S. [ 30 ] In the early 1930s, more people emigrated from the United States than to it. [ 48 ]