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Title Contemporary Chinese America : immigration, ethnicity, and community transformation / Min Zhou ; foreword by Alejandro Portes.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Asian American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-297) and index.
Contents Introduction : A personal reflection on the study of Chinatown and beyond -- Part I. Historical and global contexts : The Chinese diaspora and international migration -- Part II. Immigration, demographic trends, and community dynamics : Demographic trends and characteristics of contemporary Chinese America -- In and out of Chinatown: residential segregation and mobility among Chinese immigrants in New York City -- Suburbanization and new trends in community development: The case of Chinese ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, California, / with Yen-Fen Tseng and Rebecca Y. Kim -- The organizational structure of the ethnic enclave : Immigrant entrepreneurship and the enclave economy: the case of New York City's Chinatown -- Chinese-language media in the United States -- Chinese schools and the ethnic system of supplementary education -- The family and the new second generation : The other half of the sky: immigrant women in Chinatown's enclave economy -- Negotiating Chinese and ethnicity: intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families -- "Parachute kids" in Southern California: the educational experience of Chinese children in transnational families -- The future of Chinese America : Rethinking assimilation: the paradox of "model Minority" and "perpetual foreigner" -- Appendix : Recommended films on the Chinese American experience.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2016).
Subject Chinese Americans -- Social conditions.
Chinese -- United States -- Social conditions.
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
Chinese American families.
Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Community life -- United States.
Intergenerational relations -- United States.
China -- Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Asian Americans.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Related To Print version: Zhou, Min, 1956- Contemporary Chinese America. Philadelphia, PA : Temple Univ. Press, ©2009 9781592138579 1592138578 (DLC) 2008049611
ISBN 9781592138593 electronic book
1592138594 electronic book
9781592138579 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1592138578 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781592138586 paper ; alkaline paper
1592138586 paper ; alkaline paper
OCLC # EBC432842
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