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  2. Pensionado Act - Wikipedia

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    Educated Filipinos who settled in the United States faced racial discrimination when looking for jobs in their trained industries. [85] In addition, laws barred Filipinos from professional employment, such as the ones in California which barred non-citizens the ability to gain professional licenses.

  3. Filipino Americans - Wikipedia

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    The term Filipino American is sometimes shortened to Fil-Am [17] or Pinoy. [18] Another term which has been used is Philippine Americans. [19] The earliest appearance of the term Pinoy (feminine Pinay), was in a 1926 issue of the Filipino Student Bulletin. [20]

  4. Overseas Filipino Worker - Wikipedia

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    According to the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment, "active and systemic migration" [5] of Filipinos for temporary employment began by the 1960s, when the United States government, contractors of the US Armed Forces, and civilian agencies began recruiting Filipinos to work in jobs in the construction and service sector. [5]

  5. History of Filipino nurses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since the 1890s, the United States has periodically relied upon Filipino nurses to help meet the needs of the healthcare system. [1] This collaboration has been a significant contributor to the migration of Filipinos to the U.S., as Filipino citizens increasingly had personal connections in America. Since 1960, more than 150,000 nurses have ...

  6. History of Filipino Americans - Wikipedia

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    1974, Benjamin Menor appointed first Filipino American in a state's highest judiciary office as Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. [115] Thelma Buchholdt is the first Filipino American, and first Asian American, woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, in the Alaska House of Representatives. [116] [117]

  7. Philippines–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    U.S. government officials headed by Vice President Kamala Harris pledged increased aid and investment opportunities to the Philippines on renewable energy, critical minerals supply, women's rights and education, public health and immunology, SpaceX Starlink broadband, and, in the first agreement of its kind, nuclear power planning and American ...

  8. List of Asian Americans and Pacific Islands Americans in the ...

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    Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016). With respect to the House of Representatives, California was the first of 13 states to elect an Asian American to the House (1956), and Oklahoma is the most ...

  9. Filipino Repatriation Act - Wikipedia

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    Along with Guam and Puerto Rico, the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain following the Spanish–American War in 1898 and it became United States territory.The Jones Act of 1916 made it official policy to grant Philippines independence and the Tydings–McDuffie Act of 1934 laid out the timeline and process by which that would happen, with independence fully recognized in ten years.

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