Min Zhou examines how an ethnic enclave works to direct its members into American society, while at the same time shielding them from it. Focusing specifically on New York's Chinatown, a community established more than a century ago, Zhou offers a thorough and modern treatment of the enclave as a socioeconomic system, distinct form, but intrinsically linked with, the larger society. Zhou's central theme is that Chinatown does not keep immigrant Chinese from assimilating into mainstream society, but instead provides an alternative means of incorporation into society that does not conflict with cultural distinctiveness. Concentrating on the past two decades, Zhou maintains that community networks and social capital are important resources for reaching socioeconomic goals and social positions in the United States; in Chinatown, ethnic employers use family ties and ethnic resources to advance socially. Relying on her family's networks in New York's Chinatown and her fluency in both Cantonese and Mandarin, the author, who was born in the People's Republic of China, makes extensive use of personal interviews to present a rich picture of the daily work life in the community. She demonstrates that for many immigrants, low-paid menial jobs provide by the enclave are expected as a part of the time-honored path to upward social mobility of the family. Min Zhou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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"This book provides a well-written and fascinating picture of the positive face of Chinatown as an economic enclave that provides an alternative path for immigrants to succeed in American without losing their strong ethnic identity and ocmmunity....The author provides an excellent account of the historical and structural factors that have led to the formation and continuation of Chinatown as an urban enclave since the post-1965 Chinese immigration period."
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"Chinatown is a captivating story of East meeting West in greater New York City."
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Ethnic enclaves as an alternative means of incorporation into the larger society
Honorable Mention Robert E. Park Award, American Sociological Association
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ethnic housing market, larger secondary economy, enclave protected sector, sojourning goal, enclave export sector, enclave participation, ethnic labor force, lispanic blacks, enclave workers, larger labor market, enclave entrepreneurs, lispanic whites, enclave labor market, enclave industries, female immigrant workers, enclave economy, economic enclave, occupational returns, ethnic labor market, spatial assimilation, immigrant incorporation, residential dispersion, structural duality, gold dream, ethnic resources Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York City, Hong Kong, Old Chinatown, Gold Mountain, Manhattan's Chinatown, San Francisco, Mei Chao, Southeast Asia, Canal Street, Opium War, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Pearl River, Chinese Exclusion Act, Cultural Revolution, Lower East Side of Manhattan, Little Italy, Long Island, East Coast, Far East, War Brides Act, Manhattan's Chinese, Chinatown Planning Council, Jackson Heights Browse Sample Pages:
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ethnic housing market, larger secondary economy, enclave protected sector, sojourning goal, enclave export sector, enclave participation, ethnic labor force, lispanic blacks, enclave workers, larger labor market, enclave entrepreneurs, lispanic whites, enclave labor market, enclave industries, female immigrant workers, enclave economy, economic enclave, occupational returns, ethnic labor market, spatial assimilation, immigrant incorporation, residential dispersion, structural duality, gold dream, ethnic resources Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York City, Hong Kong, Old Chinatown, Gold Mountain, Manhattan's Chinatown, San Francisco, Mei Chao, Southeast Asia, Canal Street, Opium War, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Pearl River, Chinese Exclusion Act, Cultural Revolution, Lower East Side of Manhattan, Little Italy, Long Island, East Coast, Far East, War Brides Act, Manhattan's Chinese, Chinatown Planning Council, Jackson Heights Browse Sample Pages:
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