Smithsonian traces Filipino migration from Hawaii plantations to America’s largest diaspora communities

The exhibition follows the journeys of Filipino sakadas from Hawai‘i sugar plantations to the Filipino American communities they later established across the U.S.

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The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s new exhibition follows Filipino plantation workers recruited to Hawaii in the early 1900s and the migration networks that later connected the islands to Filipino communities in California and across the U.S. “Stories from the Field: Filipino Migrant Workers in Hawai‘i” centers on s…