Vietnamese American Place Making in Northern Virginia

The Goutte d'Or neighborhood of Paris has long been seen as an impoverished yet colorful quarter of the city. In recent years, it has also developed a reputation as a center for immigrants. Three populations now share the neighborhood: the European French, the Maghrebi immigrant population and their children, and the newest population of migrants from former Francophone colonies. This paper examines how the Goutte d'Or's social and ethnic identity is revealed in the built environment and in its social and economic activity. This neighborhood demonstrates how different communities and place identities coexist. It also shows how global networks of migration, exchange, and visits infuse local places. The Goutte d'Or distills many aspects of French immigrant identities, providing an example for increasing numbers of immigrant neighborhoods in France and across the world.

Section: Place and Place-making Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Place and Place-making Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Place Identity Within A Parisian Neighborhood

Kaplan

Recoquillon

2014

“…The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 opened pathways for several non-European immigrants, particularly from Asia and Latin America. The global scale economic restructuring and globalized economy facilitated by Internetbased connectivity also prompted increased demands of high-skilled professionals in the high-tech service sector industries (Li 1998(Li , 2006, whilst also creating spaces of globalized segregated communities along their socioeconomic status and professional skills (Li 1998(Li , 2006Sassen 1995;Wood 1997). The increased demands in global commodities were met by hiring highly skilled immigrants by significantly raising the numbers of nonimmigrant categories of visas, such as the L-1 and H-1B that allowed skilled professionals from different countries (Li 1998(Li , 2006Li and Park 2006:125;Min 2011) to come and work in the United States.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework and Immigrants' Decentralizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Korean Americans in Los Angeles: Decentralized Concentration and Socio‐spatial Disparity

Sharma

Koh

2019

This study analyses the socioeconomic and demographic make‐up of Koreans in Los Angeles metropolis, the largest hub of Koreans in the United States, to better understand the decentralized concentration of Koreans by addressing their within‐ and among‐group variations. By employing the rarely used measures of correspondence and typology analyses, we delineate the boundaries for Korean clusters using Getis and Ord G* local statistic, wherein each cluster's neighborhood and demographic characteristics are compared to gain nuanced insights of within‐group variations, and its evolution during 1970–2010. Cluster level analysis of Koreatown suggests that even though it was classified as a Korean cluster, Korean Americans were unevenly distributed across these clusters, with underrepresentation in white‐dominant neighborhoods, whereas much of their intraurban spaces were shared with Hispanics. All clusters except extended Koreatown exhibited Li's ethnoburb‐style spatial patterns. The Koreatown and suburban clusters were also distinct in terms of their demographic/ethnic, socioeconomic, educational, age/life cycle, and housing characteristics, suggesting socio‐spatial polarization. Our analysis, challenges the commonly perceived notion of Koreans being a homogenous group and Asians being model minorities. We illustrate significant within‐group differences among the Koreangelos. We, thus, propose innovative measures to analyze population groups to flesh out rich narratives of America's fast changing social geographies.

“…Salient examples include Cubans (Thomas 1967;Boswell 1985), Hmong (Miyares 1998), Somalis (Nadeau 2003), and Vietnamese (Wood 1997;Airriess and Clawson 2000;Hardwick and Meacham 2005). In such instances, wellstudied mechanisms come into play, such as wage/job-opportunity differentials, costs of living, and social networks comprised of friends and family.…”

Section: Refugee-resettlement Agencies As Intermediariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organization‐Led Migration, Individual Choice, and Refugee Resettlement in The U.S.: Seeking Regularities

Forrest

Brown

2014

ABSTRACT. The role of organizations in migration has received less attention than warranted; individual choice has typically been emphasized. As an in-depth illustration, we consider refugee resettlement in the United States, post-World War II, wherein intermediary organizations play(ed) a major role. Central to this system are voluntary agencies (VOLAGs) and community organizations, but secondary migration also is critical.