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Title Immigrant adaptation in multi-ethnic societies [electronic resource] : Canada, Taiwan, and the United States / edited by Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang and Nancy Denton.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Description xiii, 296 p. : ill.
Series Routledge advances in sociology ; 78
Routledge advances in sociology ; 78.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- The dynamics of immigrant residential incorporation in the United States -- Partial residential integration: suburban residential patterns of new immigrant groups in a multiethnic context -- Asian immigrants in Vancouver: from caste to class in socio-spatial segregation? -- Are native "flights" from immigration "port of entry" pushed by immigrants? -- Diversity in people and places: multiracial people in U.S. society -- Openness to interethnic relationships for Chinese and South Asian Canadians -- The contradictory nature of multiculturalism: mainland Chinese immigrants' perspectives and their onward emigration from Canada -- The perception of social distance in a multi-ethnic society: the case of Taiwan -- Diversity of Asian immigrants and their roles in the making of multicultural cities in Canada -- Family forms among first and second generation immigrants in metropolitan America, 1960-2009 -- Different voices: identity formation of early Taiwanese migrants in Canada.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Immigrants -- Social conditions.
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada.
Cultural pluralism -- Canada.
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Taiwan.
Cultural pluralism -- Taiwan.
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
Cultural pluralism -- United States.
Canada -- Ethnic relations.
Taiwan -- Ethnic relations.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Fong, Eric, 1960-
Chiang, Lan-Hung Nora.
Denton, Nancy A.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780415628549 (hbk.)
9780203094815 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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