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

• Superior document: Routledge advances in sociology ; 78
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Fong, Eric, 1960-; Chiang, Lan-Hung Nora.; Denton, Nancy A.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge advances in sociology ; 78.
• Physical Description: xiii, 296 p. :; ill.

Table of 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.