Beyond the city and the bridge : East Asian immigration in a New Jersey suburb / Noriko Matsumoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matsumoto, Noriko, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Asians--Cultural assimilation.

East Asians.

Ethnic attitudes--New Jersey.

Ethnic attitudes.

East Asians--New Jersey--Fort Lee.

Fort Lee (N.J.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Fort Lee (N.J.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.) : 1 map, 6 b-w figures

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction Globalizing Suburbia

1. A Town Of Immigrants

2. Community And Communities

3. Strategies Of Assimilation And Distinction

4. Accommodating "Others"

5. Remaking Asian Ethnicity In Suburbia

Conclusion: Reconsidering Assimilation And Ethnicity In The American Suburb

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-170) and index.

ISBN:

9780813588841

0813588847

9780813589046

0813589045

OCLC:

1078551698