Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.
Contents
Introduction : A personal reflection on the study of Chinatown and beyond -- Part I. Historical and global contexts : The Chinese diaspora and international migration -- Part II. Immigration, demographic trends, and community dynamics : Demographic trends and characteristics of contemporary Chinese America -- In and out of Chinatown: residential segregation and mobility among Chinese immigrants in New York City -- Suburbanization and new trends in community development: The case of Chinese ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, California, / with Yen-Fen Tseng and Rebecca Y. Kim -- The organizational structure of the ethnic enclave : Immigrant entrepreneurship and the enclave economy: the case of New York City's Chinatown -- Chinese-language media in the United States -- Chinese schools and the ethnic system of supplementary education -- The family and the new second generation : The other half of the sky: immigrant women in Chinatown's enclave economy -- Negotiating Chinese and ethnicity: intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families -- "Parachute kids" in Southern California: the educational experience of Chinese children in transnational families -- The future of Chinese America : Rethinking assimilation: the paradox of "model Minority" and "perpetual foreigner" -- Appendix : Recommended films on the Chinese American experience.