Orang Timur Tengah Amerika
Orang Timur Tengah Amerika (bahasa Inggris: Middle Eastern Americans) adalah orang Amerika dengan latar belakang Timur Tengah. Mereka berasal dari berbagai kelompok etnik dari Timur Tengah dan Asia Barat, seperti Kurdi dan Asiria, selain itu juga dari imigran yang berasal dari dunia Arab, Iran, Israel, Turki, dan terkadang Armenia.[1][2][3][4]
Meskipun pernah dianggap sebagai bagian dari orang Asia Amerika, definisi modern untuk "orang Asia Amerika" sekarang tidak termasuk orang berlatar belakang Asia Barat.[5]
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Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Gryn, Thomas; Gambino, Christine (October 2012). "The Foreign Born From Asia: 2011" (PDF). American Community Survey Briefs, ACSBR/11-06. U.S. Census Bureau. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal January 22, 2013. Diakses tanggal November 16, 2015.
- ^ Gibson, Campbell; Lennon, Emily (March 9, 1999). "Historical census statistics on the foreign-born population of the United – Region and Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population: 1960 to 1990". Bureau of the Census. Population Division. U.S. Census Bureau. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal March 27, 2010. Diakses tanggal November 16, 2015.
- ^ Batalova, Jeanne (May 24, 2011). "Asian Immigrants in the United States". Migration Information Source. Migration Policy Institute. Diakses tanggal November 16, 2015.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines Asian regions as: ... Western Asia includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
- ^ Auclair, Gregory; Batalova, Jeanne (September 26, 2013). "Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States". Migration Information Source. Migration Policy Institute. Diakses tanggal December 16, 2013.
- ^ Cortellessa, Eric (October 23, 2016). "Israeli, Palestinian Americans could share new 'Middle Eastern' census category". The Times Of Israel. Diakses tanggal September 21, 2020.
This derives from a 1915 court ruling in Dow v. United States, in which a Syrian American, George Dow, appealed his being classified by the government as Asian. At the time, such a designation resulted in the denial of citizenship under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Bacaan lebih lanjut
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Maghbouleh, Neda (2017). The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.