Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People

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Aasra, 201, 201n. 108 Abankwah, Adelaide, 241 Abdel-Rahman, (Sheikh) Omar, 228 Abolition. See Slavery Abourezka, (Senator) James, 231 Adams, Jr., Charles Francis, 43–44 Adoption, international, 176–177, 176n. 122, 177n. 125 Advani, Ravina, 187 Afghan immigrants, 196, 201–203; asylum and refugee status, 202; illegal, 202; refugees, 201–202 Afghanistan, 187, 201–202, 202–203, 228, 230 African Black Brotherhood, 81 African Community Refugee Center, 248 African immigrants, 7, 8, 13–17, 19, 22, 71–74, 72n. 5, 232–250, 232n. 2, 235–236, 237, 238n. 39, 239n. 43, 243n. 68. See also specific groups African Immigration and Refugee Resources Center, 236 African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), 79 African Sun Times, 248 Agnes Episcopal Church (Miami, Fla.), 76 Aguilar, Hilda, 112 Ahmed, Ismael, 229 Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), 282 Al Qaeda, 130 Alabama, 108, 128, 161, 191 Alaska, 67, 100, 108 Albanian immigrants, 238 Aleutians, 100 Algerian immigrants, 229 Allen, Horace, 60, 178 Allende, (President) Salvador, 262 Allentown (Pa.), 248 al-Muhakier, Abdullah, 230 Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW), 119 Amenia (N.Y.), 39 Amerasian Homecoming Act (1987), 279 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 227, 231 American Association of Indian Physicians , 188 American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh , 133 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 229, 229n. 148 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 56, 88 American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFLCIO ), 118 American Hotel and Motel Association, 190 American Indians, 7, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 41, 75 American Jewish Committee, 227 American Medical Association, 169 American Religious Identification, The, 227 American West Indian Ladies Aid Society , 80 Amin, Idi, 187 Index 367 Amnesty. See specific groups Amsterdam, 11 Angel Island (Cal.), 46, 47, 49, 50 Anglican Church. See Episcopal Church Angola, TPS status, 136 Apache Indians, 23, 28, 33 Apraku, Kofi K., 235, 247 Aquinaldo, Ernesto, 173n. 100 Aquino, Corazon, 173 Arab immigrants, 210–211, 223–224. See also specific groups Arab League, 210 Archdiocese of Boston African Pastoral Center, 249 Argentina, 151, 156 Argentine immigrants, 150–151; illegal, 151; Jews, 150, refugees, 150, 262 Arinze, Paul Ugochukwu, 249 Aristede, (Father) Jean-Bertrand, 256 Arivaca (Ariz.), 24 Arizona, 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, 34, 85, 88, 106, 107, 228 Arkansas, 51 Arlington (Va.), 151 Armas, (Colonel) Carlos Castillo, 131 Armenian Apostolic Church, 208, 218 Armenian immigrants, 39, 207–208, 210–211, 214, 215, 217–218, 217n. 70; refugees, 207, 218; ruled “white,” 208 Arnaout, Enaam M., 229–230 Ashcroft, (Attorney General) John, 229, 230 Asian Americans, 9 Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce, 189 Asian Indian immigrants, 61–64, 67, 70, 150, 169, 186–196, 205; Act to bar (1917), 61, 62, 86; from Africa, 187; “brain drain,” 192; child labor, 192–193; economic status, 193; illegal businesses, 192; medical professionals , 187; motel operators, 190; political involvement, 195–196; professionals , 187–189, 195; rates, 102, 158; quota, 167n. 64, 186, 196; religions , 194–195; remittances, 189–190; restaurants, 191; return to India, 64; small business owners, 190–192; students, 187–188, 235n. 15; women, 62, 188, 189–190, 192, 193–194 Asian immigrants. See specific groups Asiatic Exclusion League, 62 Associated Farmers, 95 Association of Pakistani Physicians, 197 Asylum. See specific groups Atlanta (Ga.), 110, 155, 161, 244, 246, 251, 259, 266; popularity among immigrants , 100 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 181, 184, 191, 229 Attala, Zia, 207 Austin, Moses, 27 Australia, 30 Australian immigrants, 33 Austria, 261 Awoke, Tesufa, 237 Azikiew, Nnamdi, 234 Azores, 73 Baha’i immigrants, 211 Bahamas, 22, 153, 256–257 Bahamian immigrants, 75–77; women, 76 Bakalian, Anny, 217–218 Bakersfield (California), 188 Baltimore (Md.), 18, 37; popularity among immigrants, 100 Bancroft, Hubert, 37 Bangladesh, 198 Bangladeshi immigrants, 196, 198–201, 205, 210, 210n. 19; domestic violence , 200; illegal, 200; women, 200–201 Bangladeshi Society, 200 Bantu refugees, 239 Barbados, 74, 75, 250–251; illegal immigration , 75 Barkan, Elliott, 168 Barnes, Roy (Governer), 108 Barrow, (Reverend) Reginald Grant, 79 Baseball, recruitment in Latin America, 115–116, 149 Batista, Fulgencio, 262–263, 268, 269 Battle of New Orleans, 21 368 | Index Baur, John, 19 Bean, Frank, 202, 291 Beaufort (S.C.), 14 Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 78–79 Belgian immigrants, 86 Bellingham (Wash.), 62 Benevolence International Foundation, 229 Bennett, (Justice) Nathaniel, 41 Bergen County (N.J.), 179, 273 Bergen (County) Record, 217 Berkeley, Gertrude (La Tules), 35 Berlin, Ira, 13, 16 Bermuda Benevolent Association, 79 Beveridge, Andrew, 243 Bhagwandin, Dayanand...