Beyond the City and the Bridge : : East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb / / Noriko Matsumoto.

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 waves of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (175 p.) :; 1 map, 6 b-w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction Globalizing Suburbia
  • 1. A Town Of Immigrants
  • 2. Community And Communities
  • 3. Strategies Of Assimilation And Distinction
  • 4. Accommodating "Others"
  • 5. Remaking Asian Ethnicity In Suburbia
  • Conclusion: Reconsidering Assimilation And Ethnicity In The American Suburb
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index