Strategy/ Plan of Action

Strategy/ Plan of Action 

Research:

• • Filipinos now represent the fourth largest immigrant group in the US
• • Immigrants from the Philippines are better educated 
• • California had the largest number of Filipino immigrants in 2011
• • Majority of children in Filipino immigrant families were born in the US 
• • Earliest identifiable Filipino immigrants arrived in America during 1830s
• • Philippine Islands were a Spanish colony
• • Philippines at one point came under the US

http://migrationpolicy.org/article/filipino-immigrants-united-states#4

http://immigrationinamerica.org/497-filipino-immigrants.html

Questions I plan to ask: 

• • What was going on in your country during the time you lived there?- political, social, some background on personal life
• • How did you get the idea of immigrating to the US?
• • Was there other options for immigration?- country wise
• • When did you decide to move to the US? 
• • Why “”
• • How “”
• • Did you have a “game plan” for when you immigrate to the US?
• • Was the process difficult?
• • Did you know anyone or had family in the US prior to your immigration?
• • What did you expect of the US when you moved?
• • How did your expectations differ from your actual experience?
• • Explain a bit of your first couple of years of immigration?
• • Would you have done something differently? And why?

Themes:

• • Migrating for better opportunities