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From Chinatown to every town : how Chinese immigrants have expanded the restaurant business in the United States

Title
From Chinatown to every town : how Chinese immigrants have expanded the restaurant business in the United States / Zai Liang.
Author
Liang, Zai
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

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xv, 198 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Summary
"From Chinatown to Every Town explores the long history of Chinese immigration within the U.S. Zai Liang studies the fundamental shift of spatial settlement for low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown towards new immigrant destinations. Beginning in the 1990s, Liang examines the role of Chinese restaurants' expansion and their growing popularity on the subsequent shift in settlement to more rural areas. Using a mixed method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six immigrant destination states, From Chinatown to Every Town explores key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown bus, and supply chain shops to argue how they together facilitate the process of spatial dispersion of immigrants and at the same time maintain linkages between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations"--
Subject
  • Chinese restaurants > United States
  • Chinese restaurants > New York
  • Immigrants > United States
  • Chinese Americans > United States > Social conditions
  • Chinatowns > New York
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Job search : from immigrant networks to market-based institutions -- Making the connection : the story of the Chinatown bus -- Choices for new immigrant destinations -- New businesses in new places : adaptation and race relations -- The ties that bind : between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : Methods -- Appendix B : Analysis of job locations.
ISBN
  • 9780520384965
  • 0520384962
  • 9780520384972
  • 0520384970
  • 9780520384989 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022030907
OCLC
  • on1341342525
  • 1341342525
  • SCSB-14483436
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries