Building Ethnoburbia: The Emergence and Manifestation of the Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley

Wei, Li

doi:10.1353/jaas.1999.0009

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“…Fully aware the historical and contemporary negative connotations attached to Chinatowns, community leaders and residents in suburban areas do not want outsiders labeling their communities be labeled as new/suburban Chinatown (Li, 1999). In the study on Flushing Queens, Chen (1992) demonstrates important characteristics in Flushing that differ it from Chinatown by naming his book ''Chinatown No More.''…”

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Beyond Chinatown, beyond Enclave: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Chinese Settlements in the United States

2005

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Profound changes in international geopolitics and national policies, as well as global economic restructuring, and technological and communicational development have occurred since Chinatown first emerged. With the rapid pace of globalizing economy, increasing flows of population, commodities, information, and financial resources across the Pacific Rim -particularly in the last two decades -it is imperative that we reexamine the international migration patterns of Chinese population and reconceptualize the resulting Chinese settlement forms in the globalization era. This article attempts to serve such purposes by briefly reviewing the debate centered around historical and contemporary Chinatowns; discussing the impacts of societal and structural factors on Chinese immigration and settlement; presenting a spectrum of contemporary Chinese settlement forms in the United States, and highlighting some key characteristics. The article ends with brief discussion and conclusion sections that summarize some issues in contemporary Chinese community studies. Revisiting the Chinatown debate

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Beyond Chinatown, beyond Enclave: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Chinese Settlements in the United States

2005

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“…Hidden away, beyond the surface of the "boxes" seen in the distance from the freeway, are manicured lawns, broadly paved streets, and cars upon cars -all characteristic of suburban 16 Wei Li (1999), who has written several articles on the City, operationalized a theory for ethnic suburban enclaves, arguing that the ethnoburb framework "illuminates the complex coalescence of global and local, economic and political, individual and institutional, urban and suburban forces that led to the intricacies of negotiating life and future prospects for this multiethnic suburban place" (3-4). 17 For a discussion on the political emergence of Monterrey Park as the first "suburban Chinatown," see Fong 1994.…”

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The Performance of Property: Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City

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2012

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Contrary to the prevailing literature on immigrant homeownership, I argue that the high rate of homeownership amongst Filipinos, coupled with their tendency to live in suburbs, can only be partially explained as an attempt to produce capital and assimilate within American culture. Just as significant are the ways in which Filipinos utilize homeownership as a means of performing citizenship and signaling their belonging in the U.S. nation. Through in-depth interviews of Filipino realtors and their clients in the Californian suburb of Daly City, I describe how various middle-class enactments reflect a larger cultural logic used to navigate within the differentiating effect of U.S. citizenship.

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“…For example, in Los Angeles the very-low-income Chinese concentration in historic Chinatown and the large Chinese concentration or "ethnoburb" in the moderately priced suburb of Monterey Park are well known (Li, 1999), but there also are more affluent Chinese concentrations in the East San Gabriel Valley and in Cerritos.…”

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“…For example, in Chicago as of 1910, neighborhoods known as either German or Czech were less than a third German or Czech, and in the eleven "Little Italies" a majority of residents were not Italian (Philpott, 1978). In the Los Angeles area less than half the residents in the well-known suburban Chinatown of the Monterey Park area were Chinese in 1990 (Li, 1999); and in 2000 only about 20% of the residents of the enclave of Koreatown were ethnic Korean, even though the Koreatown concentration was extremely important to Southern California's Koreans (Allen and Turner, 2002). Therefore, recognized and important ethnic concentrations do not necessarily contain extremely high percentages or even majorities of the ethnic group.…”

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“…The large Asian concentrations of Little Saigon in Orange County and the West San Gabriel Valley show a wide range of income across different tracts. The latter area includes the city of Monterey Park, the first and best-known focus of this strongly Chinese concentration (Li, 1999). The West San Gabriel Valley has grown rapidly in its range of Chinese-oriented services, businesses, shopping centers, and employment to become a very large enclave, sometimes referred to as a Chinese "ethnoburb."…”

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Ethnic Residential Concentrations with Above-Average Incomes

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2009

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Are residents of ethnic concentrations necessarily poor? We tested this notion with Census 2000 data for Asian and Latino households in the New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco CMSAs. Ethnic concentrations included all census tracts in which the group comprised over 40% of the population. While many residential concentrations had low incomes, 11% of concentrated Latinos and 57% of concentrated Asians had incomes above their metropolitan medians for all households. Moreover, 18% of concentrated Asians lived in tracts with incomes at least 50% higher than the metropolitan medians. Higher-income residents within concentrations were more likely to be U.S.-born and proficient in English. Thus scholars need to revise the widespread view that people living in ethnic concentrations are poor. Many Asians and Latinos who can afford homes in mostly White neighborhoods prefer to live where both Whites and their group are well represented.

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Building Ethnoburbia: The Emergence and Manifestation of the Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley

Cited by 68 publications

References 9 publications

Beyond Chinatown, beyond Enclave: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Chinese Settlements in the United States

Beyond Chinatown, beyond Enclave: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Chinese Settlements in the United States

The Performance of Property: Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City

Ethnic Residential Concentrations with Above-Average Incomes

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