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” ― Chinese immigrants presenting documents, often fraudulent, that identified them as born in the U.S. or the child of someone born in the U.S.
“I sat across from the Grand Dragon of the Klan in Seabrook and made him feel comfortable because I talk like him,” she said. “My Southern accent reinforced familiarity in his head while we were talking about stuff he thought of as foreign and alien. It was amazing.”Inside the history of Texas' first Japanese immigrants who built the state's rice industry
Jalali immigrated in 1979 after securing sponsorship from his brother-in-law. Jalali, then living in Saudi Arabia, first moved to Miami with his wife, Farzana, and their children. The family came to Houston in 1983. Giving his children access to quality higher education opportunities was top of mind.
Faruque remembers Bangladeshi community members would rent out space at the University of Houston for major cultural events, giving families a chance to meet up and spend time together. Pham works as the general manager, on top of attending law school, and still gets customers who mistake her for her mother. Two of her children are the fourth generation of her family to work at the restaurant.
He came from Taiwan to study at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1973, and then lived in New York City, where he met his wife. Wu, now 75, goes to the community center every holiday and makes donations to the center and local cultural associations. It’s his way of giving back to the community that supported him when he first came to Houston.
At the time, he recalled there were about 150 Sri Lankan families in the Houston area, the first of whom had arrived perhaps 30 years before. Many of them were like the Lewkebandaras — professionals with young families, and the Vihara became a center of community life as well as religious instruction.
As the suburbs surrounding Houston developed, more immigrants also made their home there. Matt Manalo, 38, moved from Manila to Alief in 2004 with his parents after his mother got a job as a teacher at a charter school.Matt Manalo talks about the community loom at the Alief Art House on Jan. 13, 2022, in Houston. Manalo immigrated from Manila in 2004 with his parents.His maternal grandmother and several relatives were already in the Houston area, he explains.
And he’s looked to contribute to that community, too. Growing up in Manila, being an artist never felt like an option, Manalo said, but two years after arriving in Houston, he began studying art at the University of Houston.
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