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This week we're bringing you stories about how immigration and migration happened in Washington.

We'll start with a group working to make sure the rich history of Filipinos in Seattle's Chinatown- International District isn't forgotten.

Here's Venice Buhain with the story.

CABANILLA (VO): Filipino Americans have had a presence here for over 100 years in Seattle.

BUHAIN (VO): Devin Israel Cabanilla the executive director of Filipinotown Seattle, says that history is not generally known.

The group's current project is getting street signs in the Chinatown International District, also known as the CID.

CABANILLA: So that it's better known for the region and the city that the International District is not just Chinatown, Japantown.

Filipinotown is here as well.

BUHAIN: In the early 20th century, the CID was a hub for Seattle's growing immigrant population from Asia and elsewhere.

CABANILLA: This area was a central place for Asian Pacific immigrants simply because of segregation.

BUHAIN: Because the Philippines was a U.S.

territory from 1898 to 1946, Filipino immigrants were unaffected by laws in the 1920s that restricted immigration from Japan or China.

Many Filipinos came to study at the University of Washington or to work in burgeoning industries like lumber, farming, canneries, and factories.

While the physical Filipino presence in the CID dwindled in the later 20th century with redevelopment, Seattle Filipinos and Filipino Americans continued to make impacts locally and nationally.

CABANILLA: It may not have been in terms of storefronts, but our presence has always existed in terms of politics, culture as well.

In Seattle, this is Venice Buhain, Cascade PBS.

I'm Paris Jackson.

All this week, we'll be covering stories on the history of immigration in Washington.

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