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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred Chinese immigration to the United States, but the Magnuson Act of 1943 repealed it, and the population of Chinatowns began to rise again. Many historic Chinatowns have lost their status as ethnic Chinese enclaves due to gentrification and demographic shifts, while others have become major tourist ...
The following is a list of places in the United States with a population fewer than 100,000 in which at least three percent (five percent in Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay areas) of the total population is Chinese, according to the 2010-2015 American Community Survey, and the 2010 U.S. Census for the U.S. territories.
The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, [7] [8] comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017, [9] including at least 12 Chinatowns - six [10] (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, [11] and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York City ...
San Francisco, California has the highest per capita concentration of Chinese Americans of any major city in the United States, at an estimated 21.4%, or 172,181 people, and contains the second-largest total number of Chinese Americans of any U.S. city. San Francisco's Chinatown was established in the 1840s, making it the oldest Chinatown in ...
The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017, [4] including at least 12 Chinatowns - six [5] (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, [6] and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York City proper, and one each in Nassau County, Long Island; Cherry ...
Las Vegas' Asian American population has grown more quickly than nearly any other population in the last few years. L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley played a part.
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The early Chinatowns such as those in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the United States were naturally destinations for people of Chinese descent as migration were the result of opportunities such as the California Gold Rush and the Transcontinental Railroad drawing the population in, creating natural Chinese enclaves that were almost always ...