Introduction
During the years from 1865 to 1935 great masses of people were traveling from Europe and from China to the Americas looking for a way to fulfill their dreams. The Irish and Chinese immigrant experience was similar in the way that because they were both seen as “foreign unskilled labor” they were both given low-paying unskilled jobs without a path to progress to better jobs. They were both treated badly by the earlier immigrants to the country who now considered themselves the true, native Americans. Other than that the experiences between the two immigrant groups is very different. We will ...