Asian American assimilation : ethnicity, immigration, and socioeconomic attainment / / C.N. Le

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959393503321
• Autore: Le C. N (Cuong Nguyen)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2007
• ISBN: 1-59332-308-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: The new Americans
• Disciplina: 305.895/073
• Soggetti: Asian Americans - Cultural assimilation; Asian Americans - Ethnic identity; Immigrants - United States - Social conditions; Asian Americans - Social conditions; Asian Americans - Economic conditions; United States Ethnic relations; United States Emigration and immigration; Asia Emigration and immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: The history of Asian immigration and assimilation -- Vietnamese Americans : history and context -- Climbing the ladder : income, occupation, and prestige attainment -- Doing it their way : entrepreneurship and small business ownership -- Race and place : residential segregation and quality of neighborhoods -- Glimpses into the future : interracial and interethnic marriage -- Conclusion: Forging their own mainstream.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most people think that assimilation involves just behavior -- how a newcomer acquires the norms and values of the majority society. But as society becomes increasingly diverse, globalized, and transnational, we need to rethink how newcomer groups assimilate into the American mainstream. Le broadens the idea of assimilation to include socioeconomic and institutional examples of integration by analyzing outcomes such as income, occupational prestige, small business ownership, residential segregation, and intermarriage for five Asian American groups, with an emphasis on Vietnamese. The results show ; that most Vietnamese Americans experience little disadvantage or inequality compared to other Asian Americans (and many times with Whites) when it comes to achieving structural integration. Le hypothesizes that Vietnamese have been able to overcome challenges in a relatively short amount of time by using collective resources and maintaining ethnic solidarity to weave together a pattern of achievement and mobility combined with tradition and cohesion.