From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2006

From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb

New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries

Edited by: Wei Li

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824874520

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Asian Immigration and Community in the Pacific Rim Wei Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Making America at Eden Center Joseph S. Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Flushing 2000: Geographic Explorations in Asian New York Christopher J. Smith and John R. Logan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Spatial Transformation of an Urban Ethnic Community: From Chinatown to Ethnoburb in Los Angeles Wei Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Koreans in Greater Los Angeles: Socioeconomic Polarization, Ethnic Attachment, and Residential Patterns Hans Dieter Laux and Günter Thieme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Asian Americans in Silicon Valley: High-Technology Industry Development and Community Transformation Wei Li and Edward J. W. Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Suburban Housing and Indoor Shopping: The Production of the Contemporary Chinese Landscape in Toronto Lucia Lo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Hong Kong Business, Money, and Migration in Vancouver, Canada David W. Edgington, Michael A. Goldberg and Thomas A. Hutton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
The Social Construction of an Indochinese Australian Neighborhood in Sydney: The Case of Cabramatta Kevin M. Dunn and Suzannah Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
The Chinese in Auckland: Changing Profiles in a More Diverse Society Elsie Ho and Richard Bedford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: April 30, 2006
ISBN: 9780824874520