Lankan Americans' IMPACT ON life in America – The Island
The earliest Sri Lankans to enter the United States were classified as “other Asian.” Immigration records show that between 1881 and 1890, a total of 1,910 “other Asians” were admitted to the United States. It is unlikely that many of these were from Sri Lanka. In 1975, immigration records classified Sri Lankans as a separate […]
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