Beyond the city and the bridge : East Asian immigration in a New Jersey suburb /

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"In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, Bergen County, on the west side of the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan and New Jersey. Since the 1970s, successive wav...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Matsumoto, Noriko, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
East Asians > New Jersey > Fort Lee.
East Asians > Cultural assimilation.
Ethnic attitudes > New Jersey.
Est-Asiatiques > New Jersey > Fort Lee.
Est-Asiatiques > Acculturation.
Attitudes ethniques > New Jersey.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
East Asians
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Ethnic attitudes
Fort Lee (N.J.) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
New Jersey
New Jersey > Fort Lee
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Globalizing suburbia
  • A town of immigrants
  • Community and communities
  • Strategies of assimilation and distinction
  • Accommodating "others"
  • Remaking Asian ethnicity in suburbia
  • Reconsidering assimilation and ethnicity in the American suburb.

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