DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Contemporary Chinese America

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation

Min Zhou author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.

Published:15th May '09

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Contemporary Chinese America cover

Presents a 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. This title collects research on a range of subjects, including the causes and consequences of emigration from China and ethnic enclave economies.A sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experience

"[S]cholars of contemporary Asian American life will find much of value in Zhou's study. Overall, it offers a fascinating portrait not only of a specific ethnic group but also of the changing meanings of immigration, integration, and acculturation in modern America." The Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter 2012

ISBN: 9781592138586

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm

Weight: 454g

328 pages