Chinatown : the socioeconomic potential of an urban enclave

著者

• Zhou, Min

書誌事項

Chinatown : the socioeconomic potential of an urban enclave

Min Zhou ; foreword by Alejandro Portes

（Conflicts in urban and regional development / edited by John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom）

Temple University Press, 1992

• :cloth
• :pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. 251-263

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

:cloth ISBN 9780877229346

内容説明

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.

目次

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Memories of Sojourning 3. Changes in Recent Chinese Immigration 4. Uprooted: The New Arrivals 5. The Rise of the Economic Enclave 6. The Ethnic Labor Force and Its Labor Market Experience 7. The Other Half of the Sky: Socioeconomic Adaptation of Immigrant Women 8. Residential Mobility and Ethnic Segregation 9. Conclusion: Rising Out of Chinatown Notes References Index

巻冊次

:pbk ISBN 9781566393379

内容説明

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.In the series Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development, edited by John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom.

目次

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Memories of Sojourning 3. Changes in Recent Chinese Immigration 4. Uprooted: The New Arrivals 5. The Rise of the Economic Enclave 6. The Ethnic Labor Force and Its Labor Market Experience 7. The Other Half of the Sky: Socioeconomic Adaptation of Immigrant Women 8. Residential Mobility and Ethnic Segregation 9. Conclusion: Rising Out of Chinatown Notes References Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA18372315
• ISBN:
  • 0877229341
  • 156639337X
• LCCN: 91028649
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Philadelphia
• ページ数/冊数: xxiv, 275 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : F128.9.C5
  • DC20 : 305.895/107471
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Chinese Americans -- New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA1013357X