Abstract
This is a fieldwork report about a project name “Hakka Research Project of North America” sponsored by Taiwan Hakka Culture evelopment Center of the Hakka Affairs Council, mainly constructing a basic data for the study of overseas Hakka. The current study focuses on the history of Hakka immigrants from all over the world in North America and studies of Hakka ethnic associations established in major cities, along with early study of North America Hakka immigration within some of the most important Chinatown cities. In 2016, our research team traveled to the United States and Canada twice separately, studying the remaining Hakka organizations and archives, helping researchers more accurately finding historical data about Hakka migrants and to reconstruct the history of North America Hakka immigration