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Malaka's mom was from the Philippines. This means that Malaka is part Filipino and this causes problems for her in the book. She gets made fun of for being Filipino and has to try and make friends and live with it. Malaka is a very strong person and get over it and end's up living a good life with her family.

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For Malaka, fitting in was difficult due to her being foreign from the area. She grew up in Cerritos, Los Angeles county. Malaka was used to her past settings and customs, therefore it was hard for her to get used to the people around her. The dishes she used to enjoy were seen as gross or weird. The traditions she used to practice were seen as strange and unnatural. She needed to learn how the people around her acted and what they did if she wanted to fit in.

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Growing up in California, Malaka experienced feelings of cultural isolation and difficulty fitting in due to her mixed heritage. Her trouble fitting in stems from her mixed heritage: her mother is Filipino and her father is Egyptian. After her parents split up, Malaka spent summers with her father in Egypt, where she felt like a complete outsider due to her upbringing in the United States.

Malaka starts out in this story with a lack of confidence in her own ethnic culture, and in the way she looks. She feels that she is neither Filipino nor American. But by the end, she chooses to accept herself, her race, and what she looks like. She reconciled with herself that she didn't need to be who her parents wanted her to be, or pretend to be someone else at work. She is who she is. A free spirited Filipina. She didn't obey her parents' choice to marry a Muslim, she married a white man. Although she didn't obey her parents' choice, she was happy with Darren. And in the end it shows that her parents were also racist, the same as the people around Malaka.

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Re " Death of Baby Grips Mental Health Advocates for Bangladeshi Women in City " (news article, Aug. 14):

Your article makes it clear that there are people living in New York City who are not being reached with the information on the services and support available to them. Isolated by cultural tradition and an inability to communicate beyond her circumstances, Rashida Chowdhury committed a desperate and tragic act to end her infant son's life. It has devastated her family, her own life, her community and those of us who have been charged with providing a safety net.

It is evident that there is an urgent need for all of our communities to be informed about available services. To be effective, we must clear the hurdles of cultural and language barriers. Fully 25 percent of New Yorkers are not English proficient.

To address this reality, in December 2014 the New York City Council launched a communications engagement project to strengthen its ties to the extensive ethnic community media that play a fundamental role in our city by bringing information to 3.1 million immigrants. The City Council is developing media outreach strategies that are diverse and inclusive, while devising best practices that take into account how the myriad small publications need to receive information.

We are committed to protecting our immigrant residents, and the City Council is moving quickly to ensure that the isolation experienced by Rashida Chowdhury will not be repeated.

MELISSA MARK-VIVERITO

New York City Council Speaker

New York

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Re " Death of Baby Grips Mental Health Advocates for Bangladeshi Women in City " (news article, Aug. 14): Your article makes it clear that there are people living in New York City who are not being reached with the information on the services and support available to them.

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Social Issues: Cultural Isolation (Response)

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I add information about social issues to this padlet because the setting, and where she from has affected her to face social issue like cultural isolation.

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In this book there is a couple of social issues. One of the main issues is discrimination. This is a major problem for Malaka throughout her life. She was always has been the "different" one. She never fit in anywhere because she was half Filipino and half Egyption. She also never had a friend group because the kids left her out. As she grew older she also faced discrimination in the place she lived in and the work enviornment.

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"For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices."
― Audre Lorde

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"For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time.

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Rascism playes a big part in peoples lifes and especially malaks life. It plays a part in malkas life because she is mis-treated by some people because of her race. Rascism is a reoccuring problem in this world today Amongst America especailly

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At the Urban Institute, we examine how structural racism continues to disproportionately segregate communities of color from access to opportunity and upward mobility by making it more difficult for people of color to secure quality education, jobs, housing, healthcare, and equal treatment in the criminal justice system.

Throughout this country's history, the hallmarks of American democracy - opportunity, freedom, and prosperity - have been largely reserved for white people through the intentional exclusion and oppression of people of color. The deep racial and ethnic inequities that exist today are a direct result of structural racism: the historical and contemporary policies, practices, and norms that create and maintain white supremacy.

At the Urban Institute, we examine how structural racism continues to disproportionately segregate communities of color from access to opportunity and upward mobility by making it more difficult for people of color to secure quality education, jobs, housing, healthcare, and equal treatment in the criminal justice system.

For decades, our researchers have called attention to the role of race and racism in our public and private institutions and offered evidence-based solutions for how to address these inequities. Our scholars will play a crucial role as we continue to elevate the public discourse around race and racism in America.

Urban Next50 What would it take to overcome the damaging effects of structural racism and ensure a more equitable future?

Interim Project Director, Housing Crisis Research Collaborative

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Malaka Gharib is the author and artist of "I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir," published by Clarkson Potter in April 2019. It is about growing up as a first-generation Filipina Egyptian American.

She is the deputy editor of NPR's global health and global development blog, Goats and Soda. She writes about foreign aid, humanitarian crises and development and assists in editing the blog. She also manages the blog's digital outreach strategy and social media accounts.

Previously, she led digital at the Malala Fund, where she managed Malala's advocacy and fundraising strategy. There, she organized digital events around Malala Day, education campaigns and Malala's documentary film, "HE NAMED ME MALALA."

She comes from The ONE Campaign, a grassroots advocacy organization of more than 6 million people united against global poverty, where she managed ONE's social media platforms, lead digital content strategy, and edited the ONE Blog. Under her leadership, she brought 1 million followers to ONE's Facebook page, made the ONE Blog a high-traffic destination for global development news, and established a culture of testing, innovation and pop-friendly responsiveness to ONE's digital communications.

Before ONE, Malaka was one of the first full-time social media copywriters in Washington at Virilion, a digital advertising agency, where she got her start writing punchy tweets and Facebook posts for a $20 million energy campaign. Previously, she was an interview producer at Al Jazeera English, putting together live discussions during the 2008 US presidential elections, the War on Gaza and the Mumbai attacks.

Malaka graduated magma cum laude from Syracuse University with a double major in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and marketing from the Whitman School of Management.

From 2010 to 2015, Malaka ran an independent food magazine called The Runcible Spoon, which has been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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Malaka Gharib is the author and artist of "I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir," published by Clarkson Potter in April 2019. It is about growing up as a first-generation Filipina Egyptian American. She is the deputy editor of NPR's global health and global development blog, Goats and Soda.

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Malaka's dad was from Egypt and her mom was from The Filipines. Malaka was born and raised in California USA. Shortly after she grew up her dad and mom got divorced and her dad went back to egypt and her and her mom stayed in california.

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Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt's heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world's earliest urban and literate societies. Pharaonic Egypt thrived for some 3,000 years through a series of native dynasties that were interspersed with brief periods of foreign rule. After Alexander the Great conquered the region in 323 bce, urban Egypt became an integral part of the Hellenistic world. Under the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty, an advanced literate society thrived in the city of Alexandria, but what is now Egypt was conquered by the Romans in 30 bce. It remained part of the Roman Republic and Empire and then part of Rome's successor state, the Byzantine Empire, until its conquest by Arab Muslim armies in 639-642 ce.

Until the Muslim conquest, great continuity had typified Egyptian rural life. Despite the incongruent ethnicity of successive ruling groups and the cosmopolitan nature of Egypt's larger urban centres, the language and culture of the rural, agrarian masses-whose lives were largely measured by the annual rise and fall of the Nile River, with its annual inundation-had changed only marginally throughout the centuries. Following the conquests, both urban and rural culture began to adopt elements of Arab culture, and an Arabic vernacular eventually replaced the Egyptian language as the common means of spoken discourse. Moreover, since that time, Egypt's history has been part of the broader Islamic world, and though Egyptians continued to be ruled by foreign elite-whether Arab, Kurdish, Circassian, or Turkish-the country's cultural milieu remained predominantly Arab.

Egypt eventually became one of the intellectual and cultural centres of the Arab and Islamic world, a status that was fortified in the mid-13th century when Mongol armies sacked Baghdad and ended the Abbasid caliphate. The Mamluk sultans of Egypt, under whom the country thrived for several centuries, established a pseudo-caliphate of dubious legitimacy. But in 1517 the Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamluks and established control over Egypt that lasted until 1798, when Napoleon I led a French army in a short occupation of the country.

The French occupation, which ended in 1801, marked the first time a European power had conquered and occupied Egypt, and it set the stage for further European involvement. Egypt's strategic location has always made it a hub for trade routes between Africa, Europe, and Asia, but this natural advantage was enhanced in 1869 by the opening of the Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. The concern of the European powers (namely France and the United Kingdom, which were major shareholders in the canal) to safeguard the canal for strategic and commercial reasons became one of the most important factors influencing the subsequent history of Egypt. The United Kingdom occupied Egypt in 1882 and continued to exert a strong influence on the country until after World War II (1939-45).

In 1952 a military coup installed a revolutionary regime that promoted a combination of socialism and Pan-Arab nationalism. The new regime's extreme political rhetoric and its nationalization of the Suez Canal Company prompted the Suez Crisis of 1956, which was only resolved by the intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union, whose presence in the Mediterranean region thereafter kept Egypt in the international spotlight.

During the Cold War, Egypt's central role in the Arabic-speaking world increased its geopolitical importance as Arab nationalism and inter-Arab relations became powerful and emotional political forces in the Middle East and North Africa. Egypt led the Arab states in a series of wars against Israel but was the first of those states to make peace with the Jewish state, which it did in 1979.

Egypt's authoritarian political system was long dominated by the president, the ruling party, and the security services. With opposition political activity tightly restricted, decades of popular frustration erupted into mass demonstrations in 2011. The uprising forced Pres. Hosni Mubarak to step down, leaving a council of military officers in control of the country. Power was transferred to an elected government in 2012, and a new constitution was adopted at the end of the year. This elected government, however, was toppled a year later when the military intervened to remove the newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, following a series of massive public demonstrations against his administration. (For a discussion of unrest and political change in Egypt in 2011, see Egypt Uprising of 2011.)

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the "gift of the Nile." Indeed, the country's rich agricultural productivity-it is one of the region's major food producers-has long supported a large rural population devoted to working the land. Present-day Egypt, however, is largely urban. The capital city, Cairo, is one of the world's largest urban agglomerations, and manufacturing and trade have increasingly outstripped agriculture as the largest sectors of the national economy. Tourism has traditionally provided an enormous portion of foreign exchange, but that industry has been subject to fluctuations during times of political and civil unrest in the region.

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Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt's heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and was the site of one of the world's earliest urban and literate societies. Learn more about Egypt in this article.

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This is Cerritos, where Malka grew up with her Filipino family. Her parents immigrated to this country in the early 1980s and meet in Los Angeles. They did not have Malaka yet until they immigrated here.

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In "I was Their American Dream" the story takes place in America, specificaly Cerritos. The book goes through her life so the beginning starts when she was a baby. The book was published in 2019 so I would say that, thats around the time that the book is in.

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Her parents were married around the early 20th century or so. So the story would have taken place around that year. Now the social issues in the story are immigration and racism.

Previously, immigrants coming to the U.S. faced terrible things, for example, few job opportunities, poor living conditions, forced assimilation, racial discrimination, poverty, social functionality, racism etc. In the past, white people were always superior.

So Malaka, as an immigrant in this time period, she was experiencing the same conflicts. Plus her parents were also from different places.

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After the depression of the 1890s, immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in that decade to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe continued coming as they had for three centuries, but in decreasing numbers. After the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from Eastern and Southern European countries, as well as Canada and Latin America. By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent of the immigrants entering the country. After 1914, immigration dropped off because of the war, and later because of immigration restrictions imposed in the 1920s.

The reasons these new immigrants made the journey to America differed little from those of their predecessors. Escaping religious, racial, and political persecution, or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine still pushed many immigrants out of their homelands. Many were pulled here by contract labor agreements offered by recruiting agents, known as padrones to Italian and Greek laborers. Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks, Bohemians, and Italians flocked to the coal mines or steel mills, Greeks preferred the textile mills, Russian and Polish Jews worked the needle trades or pushcart markets of New York. Railroad companies advertised the availability of free or cheap farmland overseas in pamphlets distributed in many languages, bringing a handful of agricultural workers to western farmlands. But the vast majority of immigrants crowded into the growing cities, searching for their chance to make a better life for themselves.

Immigrants entering the United States who could not afford first or second-class passage came through the processing center at Ellis Island, New York. Built in 1892, the center handled some 12 million European immigrants, herding thousands of them a day through the barn-like structure during the peak years for screening. Government inspectors asked a list of twenty-nine probing questions, such as: Have you money, relatives or a job in the United States? Are you a polygamist? An anarchist? Next, the doctors and nurses poked

and prodded them, looking for signs of disease or debilitating handicaps. Usually immigrants were only detained 3 or 4 hours, and then free to leave. If they did not receive stamps of approval, and many did not because they were deemed criminals, strikebreakers, anarchists or carriers of disease, they were sent back to their place of origin at the expense of the shipping line.
For the newcomers arriving without family, some solace could be found in the ethnic neighborhoods populated by their fellow countrymen. Here they could converse in their native tongue, practice their religion, and take part in cultural celebrations that helped ease the loneliness. Often, though, life for all was not easy. Most industries offered hazardous conditions and very low wages--lowered further after the padrone took out his share. Urban housing was overcrowded and unsanitary. Many found it very difficult to accept. An old Italian saying summed up the disillusionment felt by many: "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, found out three things: First, the streets weren't paved with gold; second, they weren't paved at all: and third, I was expected to pave them." In spite of the difficulties, few gave up and returned home.

References:
Kraut, Alan, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 (1982); Handlin, Oscar, The Uprooted (1951).

How To Cite This Article:
"Immigration in the early 1900s," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2000).

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I added the time period in which the story takes place and the problems immigrants would have faced during that time period to the padlet, because I think the time period had a big impact on how things happened in the story. In contrast to the present time when it is very difficult for immigrants to live in America, if the story took place in present day, the social issues in the book might be less or different. The point of this message is to tell that the time period has a direct effect on the social issues.

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Contents

1. Immigration in the Colonial Era

2. Immigration in the Mid-19th Century

3. Ellis Island and Federal Immigration Regulation

4. European Immigration: 1880-1920

5. The Bracero Program

6. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

7. PHOTO GALLERIES

The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, while some, such as the Pilgrims in the early 1600s, arrived in search of religious freedom. From the 17th to 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans came to America against their will. The first significant federal legislation restricting immigration was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Individual states regulated immigration prior to the 1892 opening of Ellis Island, the country's first federal immigration station. New laws in 1965 ended the quota system that favored European immigrants, and today, the majority of the country's immigrants hail from Asia and Latin America.
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Immigration in the Colonial Era

From its earliest days, America has been a nation of immigrants, starting with its original inhabitants, who crossed the land bridge connecting Asia and North America tens of thousands of years ago. By the 1500s, the first Europeans, led by the Spanish and French, had begun establishing settlements in what would become the United States. In 1607, the English founded their first permanent settlement in present-day America at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.

Did you know? On January 1, 1892, Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork, Ireland, was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island. She had made the nearly two-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean in steerage with her two younger brothers. Annie later raised a family on New York City's Lower East Side.

Some of America's first settlers came in search of freedom to practice their faith. In 1620, a group of roughly 100 people later known as the Pilgrims fled religious persecution in Europe and arrived at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established a colony. They were soon followed by a larger group seeking religious freedom, the Puritans, who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. By some estimates, 20,000 Puritans migrated to the region between 1630 and 1640.

A larger share of immigrants came to America seeking economic opportunities. However, because the price of passage was steep, an estimated one-half or more of the white Europeans who made the voyage did so by becoming indentured servants. Although some people voluntarily indentured themselves, others were kidnapped in European cities and forced into servitude in America. Additionally, thousands of English convicts were shipped across the Atlantic as indentured servants.

Another group of immigrants who arrived against their will during the colonial period were enslaved people from West Africa. The earliest records of slavery in America include a group of approximately 20 Africans who were forced into indentured servitude in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. By 1680, there were some 7,000 Africans in the American colonies, a number that ballooned to 700,000 by 1790, according to some estimates. Congress outlawed the importation of enslaved people to the United States as of 1808, but the practice continued. The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) resulted in the emancipation of approximately 4 million enslaved people. Although the exact numbers will never be known, it is believed that 500,000 to 650,000 Africans were brought to America and sold into slavery between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Immigration in the Mid-19th Century

Another major wave of immigration occurred from around 1815 to 1865. The majority of these newcomers hailed from Northern and Western Europe. Approximately one-third came from Ireland, which experienced a massive famine in the mid-19th century. In the 1840s, almost half of America's immigrants were from Ireland alone. Typically impoverished, these Irish immigrants settled near their point of arrival in cities along the East Coast. Between 1820 and 1930, some 4.5 million Irish migrated to the United States.

Also in the 19th century, the United States received some 5 million German immigrants. Many of them journeyed to the present-day Midwest to buy farms or congregated in such cities as Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati. In the national census of 2000, more Americans claimed German ancestry than any other group.

During the mid-1800s, a significant number of Asian immigrants settled in the United States. Lured by news of the California gold rush, some 25,000 Chinese had migrated there by the early 1850s.

The influx of newcomers resulted in anti-immigrant sentiment among certain factions of America's native-born, predominantly Anglo-Saxon Protestant population. The new arrivals were often seen as unwanted competition for jobs, while many Catholics-especially the Irish-experienced discrimination for their religious beliefs. In the 1850s, the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic American Party (also called the Know-Nothings) tried to severely curb immigration, and even ran a candidate, former U.S. president Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), in the presidential election of 1856.

Following the Civil War, the United States experienced a depression in the 1870s that contributed to a slowdown in immigration.

Ellis Island and Federal Immigration Regulation

One of the first significant pieces of federal legislation aimed at restricting immigration was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese laborers from coming to America. Californians had agitated for the new law, blaming the Chinese, who were willing to work for less, for a decline in wages.

For much of the 1800s, the federal government had left immigration policy to individual states. However, by the final decade of the century, the government decided it needed to step in to handle the ever-increasing influx of newcomers. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) designated Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty, as a federal immigration station. More than 12 million immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island during its years of operation from 1892 to 1954.

European Immigration: 1880-1920

Between 1880 and 1920, a time of rapid industrialization and urbanization, America received more than 20 million immigrants. Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of arrivals were from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. In that decade alone, some 600,000 Italians migrated to America, and by 1920 more than 4 million had entered the United States. Jews from Eastern Europe fleeing religious persecution also arrived in large numbers; over 2 million entered the United States between 1880 and 1920.

The peak year for admission of new immigrants was 1907, when approximately 1.3 million people entered the country legally. Within a decade, the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918) caused a decline in immigration. In 1917, Congress enacted legislation requiring immigrants over 16 to pass a literacy test, and in the early 1920s immigration quotas were established. The Immigration Act of 1924 created a quota system that restricted entry to 2 percent of the total number of people of each nationality in America as of the 1890 national census-a system that favored immigrants from Western Europe-and prohibited immigrants from Asia.

The Bracero Program

The Bracero Program was a series of diplomatic accords between Mexico and the United States signed in 1942 that brought millions of Mexican immigrants to the United States to work on short-term agricultural labor contracts. From 1942 to 1964, 4.6 million contracts were signed - making it the largest U.S. contract labor program to date.

The program also addressed Depression-era deportations and brought many Mexican Americans, who were largely targeted for deportation at the time, back to the states.

The program was criticized because workers often faced discrimination, harsh working conditions, and had virtually no job security. Once their contracts expired, some Braceros returned home with little money because of debts incurred to the stores located in employer-operated housing camps, while others stayed in the United States illegally and sought additional work.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Immigration plummeted during the global depression of the 1930s and World War II (1939-1945). Between 1930 and 1950, America's foreign-born population decreased from 14.2 to 10.3 million, or from 11.6 to 6.9 percent of the total population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. After the war, Congress passed special legislation enabling refugees from Europe and the Soviet Union to enter the United States. Following the communist revolution in Cuba in 1959, hundreds of thousands of refugees from that island nation also gained admittance to the United States.

In 1965, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which did away with quotas based on nationality and allowed Americans to sponsor relatives from their countries of origin. As a result of this act and subsequent legislation, the nation experienced a shift in immigration patterns. Today, the majority of U.S. immigrants come from Asia and Latin America rather than Europe.

PHOTO GALLERIES

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Malaka had first grown up Cerritos, a place in Los Angeles county. She grew up with her Filipino mother and Muslim father. The setting changed periodically and often, since she practically lived in two very different areas. Over the summer, she would go to Egypt with her father and during the school year she would be with her mother. At one point, the setting is in a college and at another it's in an office.

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Malaka Gharib is the author of this book. From this article I understand why she wrote this memoir because she wanted to tell the story of growing up as a first generation Filipino Egyptian-American. And she wrote books that covered issues including the refugee crisis, gender equality etc. And all of these have been expressed in her book. For example, Malaka didn't have enough money to go to college and needed her Mom to take mortgage money to help her.

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Malaka Gharib is the deputy editor and digital strategist on NPR's global health and development team. She covers topics such as the refugee crisis, gender equality and women's health. Her work as part of NPR's reporting teams has been recognized with two Gracie Awards: in 2019 for How To Raise A Human, a series on global parenting, and in 2015 for #15Girls, a series that profiled teen girls around the world.

Gharib is also a cartoonist. She is the artist and author of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, about growing up as a first generation Filipino Egyptian American. Her comics have been featured in NPR, Catapult Magazine, The Believer Magazine, The Nib, The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Before coming to NPR in 2015, Gharib worked at the Malala Fund, a global education charity founded by Malala Yousafzai, and the ONE Campaign, an anti-poverty advocacy group founded by Bono. She graduated from Syracuse University with a dual degree in journalism and marketing.

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Life as an immigrant was hard for Malaka because she was a young childs with divorced parents from two completely different places. Ths book has to do with racism and discrimination because malaka is egyptian and fillipene. Malaka is treated differently than others because of this and does not have a very good socail life but she is not rude or does not blame it on anyone because of it. Her sister minn minn is younger than her but mor epopular because she is not mixed race whcih is also part of racism.

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-Minn minn
-Malakas Mom
-Malakas Dad
-Tatay(Her grandfather)
-Tita Pink(Malakas Aunt)
-Tito Arnel(Pinkys husband)
-Tito Maro(Malakas Uncel)
-Nanay(malakas Grandma)
-Hala(Malakas stepmother)

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"Malaka Gharib's graphic memoir I Was Their American Dream tells the story of her experience as a first-generation American of Filipino and Egyptian descent. Gharib's red-white-and-blue graphic palette serves as the perfect frame for her journey as she navigates questions of belonging, loyalty, and identity with heartwarming humor and critical wit." -Kenyon Review

"A heartwarming tribute to immigrant families and their descendants trying to live the American dream." -Kirkus Reviews

"Malaka Gharib tells the origin story of a person, somebody with hopes and fears and dreams. . . . Malaka looks to the future, to the expansive family that she has built and inherited, across continents and cultures. This memoir is as much a tribute to them as is her own coming of age story." -Jeff Daughterty, BookTrib

"With a sincere approach, this graphic memoir will bring to mind Persepolis, but it is absolutely on its own quirky wavelength." -Henry Chamberlain, Comics Grinder

" I Was Their American Dream is a pure and utter delight. With both a deft lightness and a deep poignancy, Malaka Gharib perfectly captures the feeling of growing up-of being a child of immigrants, of being a woman of color, of being thrown in the mix between cultures, of love, of family-with nostalgia, humor, and heart. Her words and illustrations are wittily observed and emotional in equal measure, able to draw a laugh and a tear over the span of a single page. I Was Their American Dream is a portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book." -Jonny Sun, author and illustrator of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too and New York Times best-selling illustrator of Gmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib: 9780525575115 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

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"A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book."-Jonny...