This dialogue focuses on the history of Asian immigration to North Jersey, from the Chinese laborers recruited to work in the Passaic Steam Laundry in Belleville, in the 1870s, to the Indian and Korean immigrants who remade Hudson and Bergen counties at the end of the twentieth century. This dialogue will look at the livelihoods that Asian immigrants made in North Jersey, and the resistance and solidarity they demonstrated in asserting their rights as residents of the state.
Image credits: Photo Courtesy of the Corky Lee Estate.