Download or read book Chinese Immigrant Adaptation in an American Urban Context written by Qingling Wang and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Identity in Contemporary Immigrant America written by Alice T. Chiang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis investigates architecture and the urban environment as an expression of cultural identity, specifically in Chinese-immigrant communities. For Chinese-immigrants, their experiences in the U.S are ones of transition, movement, and adaptation. Historically, immigrant enclaves served as popular destinations for immigrants upon their arrival to the U.S. These enclaves were meant only to be transition points for the immigrant's eventual migration into mainstream society, disappearing as group members attain social-economic mobility. However, Chinese-immigrants have not followed this pattern of acculturation. Despite their socio-economic mobility, many Chinese immigrants chose to remain close to these enclaves. Old Chinatown remains a regular destination whether for tourism, to purchase staples of an Asian diet, or for authentic goods. Such evidence suggests that these historic Chinatowns serve more than simply a place of transition; these enclaves sponsor a primary cultural identity for the Chinese community. Old Chinatowns continuously face challenges that threaten their existence. Urban renewal, highway construction, and expansion of downtown developments encroach on these neighborhoods and impede upon their growth. Many other Chinatowns rely on a tourism economy, which distills the identity of the neighborhood as they struggle to appease visitors and entice new customers. Using Seattle's Chinatown-International District (C-ID) as a case study, this thesis aims to address these contemporary challenges; to explore ways to support the social-cultural identity of these Chinatowns. An examination of the history, cultural associations, and the infrastructure of these enclaves reveals the role and physical character of Chinatown in contemporary Chinese-American society. More specifically, this thesis examines how theories of identity, globalization, place-making, and food culture can expand upon the influence of architecture and place-making. The result is an exploration on the design, programming, and space-making of a public marketplace and culinary school for Seattle's C-ID community. Drawing upon spatial ideas from both traditional Chinese buildings and from contemporary western culture, this thesis seeks to test strategies of public space and place-making to address the contemporary Chinese-American community today.
Download or read book Chinatown Economic Adaptation and Ethnic Identity of the Chinese written by Bernard P. Wong and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1982 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This case study analyzes the structural adaptations that Chinese American communities in general, and the New York Chinatown in particular, have made to survive in American society."--Foreword
Download or read book From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb written by Wei Li and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on the transformation of metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racialization theories, and emerging landscapes in the inner cities and suburbs of metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, and Auckland. The book's primary arguments center on revisioning traditional "assimilationist" models of the Chicago School with the context of today's evolving metropolis. Other key elements include immigrant and refugee policies, new theories of ethnic settlement, and urban and suburban immigrant landscape forms. Nine chapters document the experiences of Asian immigrants and refugees--rich and poor, old and new. Their communities vary from no identifiable residential cluster (Vietnamese in Northern Virginia) to multiple residential and business clusters in both inner city and suburbs (Koreans in Los Angeles, Chinese in Toronto) to the largest suburban Chinese residential and business concentration (the San Gabriel Valley of suburban Los Angeles) and the "high-tech Mecca" of the U.S., if not the world (Silicon Valley), whose growth has been inseparable from workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs of Asian descents who are often local residents as well. Rich in detail and broad in scope, From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb is the first book to focus exclusively on the Asian immigrant communities in multiethnic suburbs. It effectively demonstrates the complexity of contemporary Asian immigrant and refugee groups and the strength of their communities across the Pacific Rim. It will be welcomed by a wide range of readers with interests in Asian American studies, urban geography, the Chinese diaspora, immigration, and transnationalism. Contributors: Richard Bedford, Kevin Dunn, David W. Edgington, Michael A. Goldberg, Elsie Ho, Thomas A. Hutton, Hans Dieter Laux, Wei Li, Lucia Lo, John R. Logan, Edward J. W. Park, Suzannah Roberts, Christopher J. Smith, Günter Thieme, Joseph S. Wood.
Download or read book Immigrant Adaptation in Multi ethnic Societies written by Eric Fong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a global and comparative perspective, this book addresses three important aspects of immigrant adaptation in multiethnic contexts: immigrant and racial/ethnic residential patterns, inter-group relations, and immigrant adaptation process, examing the topic at the city ecological level, inter-group level, and individual level.
Download or read book How Chinese Immigrants Made America Home written by Georgina W.S. Lu and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese immigrants first reached the shores of California in the mid 1800s. Since then, they have made significant contributions to the American economy through their work in mines, on railroads, and on farms as they earned money to send home. However, many saw them as job-stealing freeloaders. They contributed to American culture too, even as discrimination forced them to build their own communities from the ground up. The Chinese American community had no choice but to take on these stereotypes in order to survive. Written by a Chinese immigrant, readers will discover that even the xenophobia that exists today can be defeated and one's culture celebrated in the United States.
Download or read book The Adjustment Experience of Chinese Immigrant Children in New York City written by Betty Lee Sung and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese immigrant experience of children as it relates to the community, the school, bilingual education, bicultural conflict, after-school hours, gangs, peer groups and the family.
Download or read book Initial Adaptation Experience of Chinese American Immigrants written by Suk-Han Li and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Valley City written by Melford S. Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving the City written by Xinyang Wang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the multifaceted Chinese experience in New York City, Xinyang Wang persuasively illustrates that economic forces more than racism influenced immigrantsO life decisions.
Download or read book Practical Dialogue written by Meei-Yau Wei and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigration and the City written by Eric Fong and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a "one-size-fits-all" approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities. The communities in which immigrants live and the jobs and businesses where they earn their living have become increasingly diversified. In this insightful book, Eric Fong and Brent Berry describe both contemporary patterns of immigration and the urban context in order to understand the social and economic lives of immigrants in the city. By exploring topics such as residential patterns, community form, and cultural influences, this book provides a broader understanding of how newcomers adapt to city life, while also reshaping its very fabric. This comprehensive and engaging book will be an invaluable text for students and scholars of immigration, race, ethnicity, and urban studies.
Download or read book Chinese Americans in the Heartland written by Huping Ling and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Defining the Asian American heartland and its significance -- Transnational migration and businesses in Chinese Chicago, 1870s-1930s -- Building "hop alley" : myth and reality of Chinatown in St. Louis, 1860s-1930s -- Intellectual tradition of heartland : Chicago School and beyond -- Family and marriage in heartland, 1880s-1940s -- Living heartland : 1860s-1950s -- Governing heartland : on Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906-1966 -- The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the formation of cultural community in St. Louis -- The tripartite community in Chicago -- Conclusion: Convergences and divergences.
Download or read book Managing Multicultural Lives written by Pawan Dhingra and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how second generation Asian American professionals bring together contrasting identities in the cultural spaces of daily life, and the implications for theories of immigrant adaptation and stratification.
Download or read book Chinese St Louis written by Huping Ling and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinatown and Little Tokyo written by Stanford M. Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian American Issues Relating to Labor Economics and Socioeconomic Status written by Franklin Ng and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides insights into important Asian American concerns, The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population since the mid-1960s, Asian Americans encompass Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Asian Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese, Lao, Hmong, Cambodians, Iu-Mien, and others. Their remarkably diverse ethnic, social, historical, and religious backgrounds and experiences enrich the cultural fabric of the United States. The study of Asian Americans offers many insights on such issues as immigration, refugee policy, transnationalism, return migration, cultural citizenship, ethnic communities, community building, identity and group formation, panethnicity, race relations, gender and class, entrepreneurship, employment, representation, politics, adaptation, and acculturation Featuresmultidisciplinary perspectives, This collection of articles presents contemporary research that examines such issues as the growing political power of Asian Americans, theempowerment of emigrant women, the rise of youth gangs, relations between ethnic groups, the migration of highly educated Asians, and other important subjects. The writings are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines to provide a broad but informative array of insights on this fascinating and diverse population. The different volumes give in-depth exposure to important issues linked to the different communities and impart a greater understanding of the Asian Americans in the United States. Each volume features an introduction by the editor that places the articles in context, draws attention to important Asian American concerns, and comments on analyses that are particularly incisive A versatile classroom and student research resource, Because its coverage cuts across so many disciplines, this important collection is useful in cultural, ethnic, and women's studies, history, sociology, economics and labor studies, political science, and anthropology. The material can be used in courses or bystudents individually. Professors will appreciate the collection because it gives them access to a concentration of material for classroom use and is a user-friendly way to introduce students to a variety of opinions and diversity of sources that can get them started on doing their own research. Students will appreciate the many articles as a veritable gold mine of information for reports and papers. Librarians will be pleased by the set's durability and permanence that will save wear and tear on journal collections. Individual volumes available: Vol. 1. The History and Immigration of Asian Americans 264 pages, 0-8153-2690-4 Vol. 2. Asian American Family Life and Community 304 pages, 0-8153-2691-2 Vol. 3. Asian American Women and Gender 272 pages, 0-8153-2692-0 Vol. 4. Adaptation, Acculturation and Transnational Ties Among Asian Americans 272 pages, 0-8153-2693-9 Vol. 5. Asian American Interethnic Relations andPolitics 280 pages, 0-8153-2694-7 Vol. 6. Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, andSocioeconomic Status 240 pages, 0-8153-2695-5
