Rethinking Residential Assimilation: The Case of a Chinese Ethnoburb in the San Gabriel Valley, California

Zhou, Min; Tseng, Yen-Fen; Kim, Rebecca Y.

doi:10.17953/amer.34.3.y08124j33ut846v0

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“…Analyses of Chinese settlement in California have shown that even Chinese immigrants who are financially able to residentially integrate into other neighborhoods often choose to live among others of the same ethnicity. This means that Chinese immigrants’ first neighborhood of residence is often their final, desired destination (Walton, 2015) and Chinese immigrants usually settle in urban contexts (Zhou, Tseng, & Kim, 2008). Although some highly educated new Chinese immigrants bypass inner cities to settle in the suburbs, traditional Chinatowns continue to receive newcomers and have expanded in recent years (Lin, 1998; Zhou et al, 2008).…”

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“…This means that Chinese immigrants’ first neighborhood of residence is often their final, desired destination (Walton, 2015) and Chinese immigrants usually settle in urban contexts (Zhou, Tseng, & Kim, 2008). Although some highly educated new Chinese immigrants bypass inner cities to settle in the suburbs, traditional Chinatowns continue to receive newcomers and have expanded in recent years (Lin, 1998; Zhou et al, 2008). The long history of Chinese settlement in the US, combined with historical discrimination against Chinese people (Tsai, 1986), means that ‘Chinatowns’ are often in polluted central city districts.…”

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Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study

Grineski

Collins

Morales

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Studies have demonstrated disparate exposures to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in neighborhoods with high densities of Black and Hispanic residents in the US. Asians are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the US, yet they have been underemphasized in previous studies of environmental health and injustice. This cross-sectional study investigated possible disparities in residential exposure to carcinogenic HAPs among Asian Americans, including Asian American subgroups in the US (including all 50 states and the District of Columbia, n = 71,208 US census tracts) using National Air Toxics Assessment and US Census data. In an unadjusted analysis, Chinese and Korean Americans experience the highest mean cancer risks from HAPs, followed by Blacks. The aggregated Asian category ranks just below Blacks and above Hispanics, in terms of carcinogenic HAP risk. Multivariate models adjusting for socioeconomic status, population density, urban location, and geographic clustering show that an increase in proportion of Asian residents in census tracts is associated with significantly greater cancer risk from HAPs. Neighborhoods with higher proportions (as opposed to lower proportions) of Chinese, Korean, and South Asian residents have significantly greater cancer risk burdens relative to Whites. Tracts with higher concentrations of Asians speaking a non-English language and Asians that are US-born have significantly greater cancer risk burdens. Asian Americans experience substantial residential exposure to carcinogenic HAPs in US census tracts and in the US more generally.

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Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study

Grineski

Collins

Morales

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…This alternative is further supported by another finding, that global neighborhoods tend to be relatively affluent, therefore neither in the inner ring suburbs that whites are leaving nor in the inner city. The literature on “ethnoburbs” with large Asian minorities (Li 1998; Zhou 2010; Zhou and Logan 1989; Zhou, Tseng, and Kim 2008) illustrates such a pattern.…”

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The Emerging Spatial Organization of the Metropolis: Zones of Diversity and Minority Enclaves in Chicago

Zhang

2017

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The rapid growth of Asian and Hispanic populations in urban areas is superceding traditional classifications of neighborhoods (for example as white, transitional, or minority). The “global neighborhood” that includes all groups (white, black, Hispanic and Asian) is one important new category. We examine the emerging spatial pattern of racial/ethnic composition in the Chicago metropolis, documenting an expansion of all-minority neighborhoods in the city and just beyond its borders, a shrinking set of all-white neighborhoods in the outer suburbs, and more diverse neighborhoods including whites mainly in between. The most novel element of this pattern is how large the zone of diversity has become and how far it extends into suburbia, upending the old dichotomy of “chocolate city” and “vanilla suburbs.” In addition to comparing the distance of different kinds of neighborhoods from the urban core, we also analyze their adjacency to neighborhoods of the same type or other types. There is a strong tendency toward spatial clustering of each neighborhood type and also for transitions on the boundaries of clusters either to expand or to contract their territory.

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“…However, a number of authors have argued for a rethinking of residential assimilation theories linked to the 'classical inner-city-to-suburbia residential mobility model' (Zhou et al 2008). This challenge has largely focused on the concept of an ethnoburb, introduced by Li (1998) to represent recent Chinese settlement in the US, and later extended to a number of other Pacific Rim countries (Li 2006a: just before Li's first paper appeared, Zhou (1997) identified the settlement pattern now categorised as ethnoburbs as one of the anomalies from the classical socio-spatial assimilation model, including it as an exemplar of the general process that Portes and Zhou (1993) had earlier termed 'segmented assimilation').…”

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“…Thus, as Zhou et al (2008) describe a Californian Chinese ethnoburb, such clustering involves the creation of not only ethnic enclave economies but also institutions promoting ethnic social capital which act as magnets for some migrants who are often more visible in such neighbourhoods than their relative proportion of the total population suggests, partly because their cultural distinctiveness is reflected in the townscape (Dunn and Roberts 2006;Wood 2006). Furthermore, they suggest that although the residential areas are relatively mixed, the degree of inter-ethnic social interaction within them is not high, sustaining Zelinsky and Lee's argument that propinquity is no longer a major determinant of sociospatial behaviour (as illustrated by Ley's 2008, study of immigrant churches in Vancouver).…”

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Using spatial statistics to identify and characterise ethnoburbs: establishing a methodology using the example of Auckland, New Zealand

2010

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Recent studies in the United States and other Pacific Rim countries have identified a new form of ethnic minority group clustering within the residential mosaic-ethnoburbs. These are suburban in location, occupied by relatively high-income, predominantly Asian, immigrants, and low density in their nature: many migrants move directly to those suburbs rather than the inter-generational outward migration from central city clusters typical of other migrant streams. Although ethnoburb residents tend to cluster in particular segments of the built-up area they do not to form large percentages of the population there. As yet, no methodology has been developed to identify these clusters, as a prelude to identifying their characteristics. This paper offers such a procedure, based on local statistical analysis. It is applied to six Asian groups in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Rethinking Residential Assimilation: The Case of a Chinese Ethnoburb in the San Gabriel Valley, California

Cited by 43 publications

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Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study

Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study

The Emerging Spatial Organization of the Metropolis: Zones of Diversity and Minority Enclaves in Chicago

Using spatial statistics to identify and characterise ethnoburbs: establishing a methodology using the example of Auckland, New Zealand

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