Asian American Socioeconomic Achievement

Abstract

The analysis emphasizes the need to examine structural and cultural factors in the sending and receiving countries over a historical process to understand how immigrants are incorporated in American society. The article argues that Chinese were slower to make the transition from sojourner to immigrant due to structural characteristics of Chinese village society; whereas Japanese immigrants were not tied by strong family bonds to Japan and made a more rapid transition. The differential timing of family formation and family-run businesses in America account for the more rapid assimilation of Japanese Americans. Changing labor markets after World War II provided new opportunity structures favorable to the socioeconomic mobility of native-born Chinese and Japanese Americans.

The relationship between communication and health-related quality of life in survivorship care for Chinese-American and Korean-American breast cancer survivors

“…For example, many early Chinese immigrants arrived in the US in the mid to late-19 th Century, leaving their families behind in China, whereas a majority of Korean immigrants arrived in the US with their family members after the 1965 Immigration Act. The median age of Korean-Americans is relatively low compared to Chinese-Americans, given that the Chinese group has a longer history of immigration than the Korean group [6, 7]. Thus, the inclusion of these two subgroups may be a good example that will shed some light on understanding HRQOL and survivorship care of Asian-American sub-groups in a cultural context.…”

“…Additionally, family communication is added to reflect Asian cultures that emphasize familycentered values. Given that the Chinese group is generally more acculturated than the Korean group [6, 7], we assume that two groups may have different patterns in their relationships.…”

The Role of Father’s Occupation on Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility: The Case of Second‐Generation Chinese Americans in New York1

“…Because second‐generation Chinese Americans comprise the largest student body among Asian‐American students in the United States and Chinese‐American students achieve high levels of education, they make an interesting case study to examine the relationship between parents’ socioeconomic status and children’s educational and occupational attainment. The Chinese immigrant community is also one of the oldest and most socioeconomically diverse immigrant groups in the United States (Hirschman and Wong, 1986; Kwong, 1987; Nee and Wong, 1985; Zhou, 1992). Given that relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between the immigrant generation’s occupations and the second generation’s educational and occupational attainments in the immigration literature, in this article we examine the process of status attainment in the context of Chinese immigrants and their U.S.‐born/‐raised children in New York City.…”

American culture: A sociological perspectives

“…give detailed accounts of such structural forces at work. However, after World War II, the sudden demand for scientific and technical personnel, in combination with changes in immigration law, resulting in the '' brain drain '' of welltrained professionals from Asia (for a review, see Nee & Wong, 1985). The selective immigration of Asians with positive characteristics in recent years may well contribute to Asian American children's educational achievements , since, as we have learned from social stratification research (e.g., Blau & Duncan, 1967), children of educated parents tend to have better education themselves.…”