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Timeline of Asian Immigration to Minnesota, 1870 - 1990
1870 Early Chinese immigrants start to arrive.
1876-1910 Chinese immigrants begin to establish businesses, mostly laundries.
1883 Canton Café opens, the first Chinese restaurant in Minnesota
(1st Av. South, Minneapolis)
1893 First significant Japanese population – working for Great Northern Railway Company.
1900 First Koreans arrive – mostly working for the Oliver Mining Company.
1910 Japanese immigrants arrive from the West Coast – working for Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railway companies.
1910 First two Filipinos in Minnesota.
1914 Influx of Chinese students.
1918 Filipino immigrants begin to arrive, mostly students.
1920s Influx of Korean students, mostly to Hamline University.
1920s-1930s Filipino immigrans come to farms and canneries in southern Minnesota.
1930s Great Depression causes many Chinese to close their businesses and return to China.
1941 After the attack on Peart Harbor Japanese Americans relocated to Minnesota,
contributing to the first large-scale Japanese migration.
1945 Influx of Chinese wives of American servicemen, families of earlier immigrants,
students and political refugees.
1949 Increase in immigrant population from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, due to the establishement
of Commmunist rule in China.
1950s Influx of Korean students, mostly to Macalester College.
1950s First Vietnamese immigrants – students at the University of Minnesota.
1954-62 229 Korean faculty arrive at the University of Minnesota.
1950s-1960s Chinese population divided into northern intellectuals and southern Chinese businessmen.
1950s The beginning of an extensive Korean adoption.
1960s Vietnamese students arrive.
1970s Vietnamese wives of American servicemen begin to arrive.
1975 Vietnamese refugees begin to arrive.
1976 Cambodian, Laotian, and Hmong refugees begin to arrive.
1989 Tiananmen uprising leads to new wave of immigration.
1990 Tibetans begin to arrive to Minnesota.
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