Lines 31-40 tell us that Chinese immigrants remained sojourners while Japanese immigrants made the transition from sojourners to settlers in two decades, suggesting that both of these groups started out as sojourners, supporting answer choice (A). (B) is incorrect because lines 40-49 suggest that only Chinese immigrants experienced slow accumulation of capital while socioeconomic status of Japanese immigrants improved within two decades. (C) is incorrect because lines 35-40 tell us that only Japanese immigrants initially made the transition to small business ownership (D) is incorrect because lines 31-33 tell us that Chinese immigrants did not establish nuclear families initially. (E) is incorrect because lines 53-57 tell us that Chinese and Japanese immigration was a response to demand for low-wage low-skilled labor.
