Filipinos in Los Angeles

by Mae Respicio Koerner and Mae Respicio

Book Overview

The year 2006 marked the centennial of Filipino migration to the United States, when 15 migrant workers called sakadas arrived in Hawaii to work on the islands' sugar plantations. Today the largest concentration of Filipinos outside of the Philippines exists in Southern California. In the 1920s, the first substantial wave of newcomers settled in downtown Los Angeles, eventually migrating to areas just northwest of downtown, a district now designated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738547298
• ISBN13: 9780738547299
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.1"