The state of Israel was established only in 1948, and much of its own population growth has come about through Jewish emigration from the United States and Europe.

By 2007, the geographic concentration of Iranian immigrants had grown greater.

Much of the immigration from Iran to the United States resulted from political unrest in Iran and as a consequence of people fleeing the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 and the creation of the Islamic Republic in 1980.

Iranian immigration to the United States is a recent phenomenon and has taken place primarily since 1975.

Although Indonesia’s ties with the United States have historically been limited, the Southeast Asian nation has a special connection with the forty-fourth president of the United States.

Indonesia is made up of a large number of populated islands located south of Southeast Asia’s Malay Peninsula.

Strongly supported by President Gerald R. Ford and opposed by those who feared an influx of Southeast Asian refugees after the end of the conflict in Vietnam

The Hmong are one of the most recent Asian immigrant groups to come to the United States. Their main home is in the northern mountain regions of Laos.

This federal law provided free transportation for Filipino residents of the continental United States who wished to return home but could not afford to do so.

During the late twentieth century, Filipinos became one of the fastestgrowing immigrant populations in the United States.

Filipino American newspapers and magazines have featured stories not only about Filipinos living in the United States but also about events of interest in the Philippines, demonstrating the desire among many Filipino Americans to stay connected with their ancestral homeland.

This racially motivated attack on Filipino farmworkers was one of the first of several similar attacks in central California’s agricultural centers.

Thai laborers were forced to toil in a makeshift garment factory in a Los Angeles suburb for more than six years until the operation was busted.

The arrival of thousands of immigrants from Southeast Asia during the mid-to-late 1970’s marked a new era in immigration to the United States because of multiple factors.