| Beyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb Contributor(s): Matsumoto, Noriko (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813588863 ISBN-13: 9780813588865 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Political Science | Public Policy - Immigration |
| Dewey: 304.874 |
| LCCN: 2017056003 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
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| Publisher Description: Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award, Scholarly Non-fiction Winner of the Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Association Honorable Mention, 2019 American Sociological Association Book Award - Asia/Asian American Section 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 immigrants from East Asia have transformed this formerly white community into one of the most diverse suburbs in the greater New York region. Fort Lee today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast, with Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans forming distinct communities while influencing the structure and everyday life of the borough. Noriko Matsumoto explores the rise of this multiethnic suburb--the complex processes of assimilation and reproduction of ethnicities, the changing social relationships, and the conditions under which such transformations have occurred. |