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From 1947 to the early 1970s, Chinese immigrants to Canada came mostly from Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Southeast Asia. [1] Chinese-Canadians gained the vote federally and provincially in 1947. [1] Chinese immigration, still, was limited only to the spouse of a Chinese man who had Canadian citizenship and his dependents.
The Chinese diaspora in Latin and South America, as in North America, has existed since the 19th century owing to labour shortages in the Americas. [12] Mexico, in particular, encouraged Chinese immigration, signing a commercial treaty in 1899 that allowed Chinese citizens to run enterprises in Mexico, some of which would become involved in people smuggling. [13]
Waves of Chinese emigration have happened throughout history. They include the emigration to Southeast Asia beginning from the 10th century during the Tang dynasty, to the Americas during the 19th century, particularly during the California gold rush in the mid-1800s; general emigration initially around the early to mid 20th century which was mainly caused by corruption, starvation, and war ...
Ethnic Chinese immigration to the United States since 1965 has been aided by the fact that the United States maintains separate quotas for mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. During the late 1960s and early and mid-1970s, Chinese immigration into the United States came almost exclusively from Taiwan creating the Taiwanese American subgroup.
An influx of Chinese migrants, facing China's economic uncertainty, are crossing the U.S.'s southern border.
Chinese immigration later increased with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, but was in fact set ten times lower. [125] Many of the first Chinese immigrants admitted in the 1940s were college students who initially sought simply to study in, not immigrate to, America.
Between 2014 and 2022, the average number of Chinese citizens who crossed the southern border without papers in a given year was around 1,400. In 2023, that number grew to 24,050.
A 30-foot sailboat carrying 20 immigrants was intercepted 21 miles off the California shoreline on Tuesday. United States Coast Guard News The 20 migrants — 17 men and three women — identified ...