Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics
Global Spaces of Chinese Culture: Diasporic Chinese Communities in the United States and Germany
1st Edition
By Sylvia Van Ziegert
April 29, 2009
This book is an exploration of how Chinese communites in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. It not only compares the local conditions of the Chinese communities in the two locations, but also moves to a global dimension to track the ...
Chicago Korean-Americans: Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community
1st Edition
By Jung-Sun Park
December 15, 2007
Based on a Chicago Korean-American case, this dissertation examines the transformation of identity and politics in a transnational immigrant community in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
Claiming Chinese Identity
1st Edition
By Elionne L. W. Belden
October 01, 1997
This study of first generation Chinese youth and their parents who have immigrated to Houston reveals the ways in which this group resists assimilation into the dominant Western milieu and instead accommodates itself as a paracommunity with the culture of its host city. Chinese parents counter ...