ISBN:
1592138586
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128208982X
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1592138578
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9781592138593
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9781282089822
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9781592138586
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9781592138579
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 310 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Asian American history and culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Contemporary Chinese America : Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation
DDC:
305.895/1073
Keywords:
Community life
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Intergenerational relations
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Chinese American families
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Chinese Social conditions
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Immigrants Social conditions
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Chinese Americans Social conditions
;
Chinese Americans Ethnic identity
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Asian Americans
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China Emigration and immigration
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United States Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Contemporary Chinese America is the most comprehensive sociological investigation of the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States—and of their offspring—in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author, Min Zhou, is a well-known sociologist of the Chinese American experience. In this volume she collects her original research on a range of subjects, including the causes and consequences of emigration from China, demographic trends of Chinese Americans, patterns of residential mobility in the U.S., Chinese American “ethnoburbs,” immigrant e
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Personal Reflection on the Study of Chinatown and Beyond; PART I Historical and Global Contexts; 1 The Chinese Diaspora and International Migration; PART II Immigration, Demographic Trends, and Community Dynamics; 2 Demographic Trends and Characteristics of Contemporary Chinese America; 3 In and Out of Chinatown: Residential Segregation and Mobility among Chinese Immigrants in New York City
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Suburbanization and New Trends in Community Development: The Case of Chinese Ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, CaliforniaPART III The Organizational Structure of the Ethnic Enclave; 5 Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Enclave Economy: The Case of New York City's Chinatown; 6 Chinese-Language Media in the United States; 7 Chinese Schools and the Ethnic System of Supplementary Education; PART IV The Family and the New Second Generation; 8 The Other Half of the Sky: Immigrant Women in Chinatown's Enclave Economy
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Negotiating Culture and Ethnicity: Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Immigrant Families10 "Parachute Kids" in Southern California: The Educational Experience of Chinese Children in Transnational Families; PART V The Future of Chinese America; 11 Rethinking Assimilation: The Paradox of "Model Minority" and "Perpetual Foreigner"; Appendix: Recommended Films on the Chinese American Experience; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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