From Chinatown to Every Town (eBook)

How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States

Zai Liang (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
216 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38498-9 (ISBN)

Infos

From Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York Citys Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas. Liangs study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures 
List of Tables 
Acknowledgments 

1. Introduction 
2. Job Search: From Immigrant Networks to Market-Based Institutions 
3. Making the Connection: The Story of the Chinatown Bus 
4. Choices for New Immigrant Destinations 
5. New Businesses in New Places: Adaptation and Race Relations 
6. The Ties That Bind: Between Chinatown in Manhattan and New Immigrant Destinations 
7. Conclusion 

Appendix A: Methods 
Appendix B: Analysis of Job Locations 
Notes 
References 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: assimilation • Cultural brokerage • Entrepreneurship • Expansion • immigrant business owners • Lower Manhattan Chinatown • nyc employment agencies • Race relations • resettlement • restaurant workers • rural Chinese restaurants • Social integration • Socio-Economic Mobility • Wages
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38498-9 / 0520384989
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38498-9 / 9780520384989