SUGAR PLANTATION WORKERS

IMMIGRATION TIMELINE, 1852 - 1965

1852 - 200 Chinese laborers arrive from Hong Kong to work on the sugar plantations. 

Between 1852 – 1884, 25, 256 Chinese laborers are imported to work on the sugar plantations.

1868 - First group of Japanese contract laborers (148 men) arrive.

1878 - First Portuguese arrive from Madeira.

1881 - A group of Germans arrive.

1884 - Five shiploads of Portuguese arrive.

Between 1878 - 1884, 9,471 Portuguese workers arrive.  The numbers remain small as travel costs to import Portuguese from Europe proves to be too costly.

1885 - Mass government-contracted labor from Japan begins.

Between 1885 - 1924, 200,000 Japanese immigrate to Hawaii.

1900 - Okinawan immigration begins.

1900 - First group of Puerto Ricans arrive.

1903 - Korean immigration begins. 

Approximately 7,843 Koreans arrive until the Korean government stops emigration in 1905.

1906 - Filipinos immigration begins.

By 1916, 18,144 Filipinos have arrived.

1907 - A shipload of 2,250 Spaniards arrives from Malaga to work the plantations.

1924 - 1936 - Continued Japanese immigration (about 100 per year).

1945 - Second wave of Filipino immigration workers arrive.

1965 - Third wave of Filipino immigration workers arrive.