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Beyond the city and the bridge : East Asian immigration in a New Jersey suburb / Noriko Matsumoto.
LIBRA JV7039.F6 M37 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matsumoto, Noriko, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic attitudes.
- East Asians.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Fort Lee (N.J.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Fort Lee (N.J.).
- New Jersey.
- New Jersey--Fort Lee.
- East Asians--New Jersey--Fort Lee.
- East Asians--Cultural assimilation.
- Ethnic attitudes--New Jersey.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- v, 179 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Globalizing suburbia
- A town of immigrants
- Community and communities
- Strategies of assimilation and distinction
- Accommodating "others"
- Remaking Asian ethnicity in suburbia
- Reconsidering assimilation and ethnicity in the American suburb.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-170) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780813588865
- 0813588863
- 9780813588889
- 081358888X
- OCLC:
- 1060963311
- Publisher Number:
- 99981137299
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