Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
As of 1999 120,000 people in Metro Detroit indicated they are of Greek descent. [1] Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan, stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit. [2] At the turn of the 20th Century the first Greek immigrants arrived. [1]
An early wave of immigrants came from Greece in the late 1890s; it peaked from 1910 to 1914. These Greek peasants turned their understanding of supply and demand into thriving businesses as peddlers, grocers, and restaurateurs. Just as they lived in villages in Greece, so did they settle in a new "village" in Detroit known as Greektown.
The Immigration Act of 1965 had increased Asian settlement into Metro Detroit, with immigrants from South Asia, China, Korea, and the Philippines. Many of the immigrants who arrived after the act were doctors, engineers, nurses, and scientists because the post-1965 immigration policies favored educated professionals.
John Karipides, left, and Paul J. Koskovich are members of the Order of AHEPA Chapter 59 in Canton, part of an international men's philanthropic organization founded by Greek immigrants in 1922.
Undocumented immigrants accounted for 1.2% of Michigan's population as of 2021, per Pew Research Center analysis. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Immigration to the United States from Greece peaked between the 1950s and 1970. [34] [35] After the 1981 admission of Greece to the European Union, annual U.S. immigration numbers fell to less than 2,000. In recent years, Greek immigration to the United States has been minimal; in fact, net migration has been towards Greece.
Andrea Dimitry – Greek-American soldier in the War of 1812 fought in the Battle of New Orleans; George Doundoulakis – Greek-American soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. Later becoming a physicist, he is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar ...