Chinese garment workers, Chinatown, New York City, about 1983
Photographer: Harvey Wang
Courtesy Harvey Wang
Mexican garment workers, Brooklyn, New York, 1989
Photographer: Dani Steele
Courtesy Dani Steele
International and national political upheavals spurred new waves of immigration in the late 1960s and early 1970s. New arrivals included Asians from China, Korea, and throughout Southeast Asia, and Latinos from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America.