NEW IMMIGRANT in San Francisco

          NEW IMMIGRANT Coral Lin

Coral Lin is a 24 year old immigrant from china, she has lived in san francisco about 10 years and she works for Chinese American international school.

THEMES

 Education

Employment

Immigration

 BACKGROUND

 

             Immigration

"The 1906 earthquake in San Fran cisco to some extent facilitated the immigration of Chinese. Since birth records of the city were destroyed during the earthquake and fire, many Chinese grasped the opportunity to claim U.S. citi zenship and used their new status to send for their sons and daughters".(Chinese American Women Defense Workers in World War II 142 )

            Employment

she like to be a teacher becasue she prefer with the children.she was luckly can find the good job in the new century for immigrant. if she imigrant before world war II,she just can always stay in chinatown and cant be a teacher.

"Before the Second World War it was difficult for Chinese American women to get jobs outside Chinatown because of racial and gender discrimination".(Chinese American Women Defense Workers in World War II)

               Education

Education is very important to Coral,becase in her childhood,she parent always told her need to stuy hard and get a good job.

she want to get the master degree and be a profession women in the future.

"State funding for higher education followed the economic roller coaster-down in the early 1990s, up in the late 1990s, down with the dot-com crash, up in the mid-2000s, down with the Great Recession" ("Competing Visions - A History of California" 444)