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Title: Beyond Chinatown: Dual Migration and the Chinese Population of Metropolitan New York City, 2000

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2002

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Abstract: Chinese immigration to the United States is in fact a dual migration in which poor migrants from Mainland China, in accordance with standard migration theory, come to the United States to improve their economic standing. Immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan, more affluent and better educated, come to the United States for a complex of interrelated political and cultural reasons. The two streams of migration cross paths in Metropolitan New York City where, on the one hand, most poor immigrants from Mainland China settle in Chinatown or along the subway line across the East River in Brooklyn. The bulk of affluent immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong, along with better educated Mainlanders, settle among diverse ethnic groups throughout the metropolitan area. Chinese communities beyond Manhattans Chinatown including the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Flushing in Queens, and a loose collection of suburbs in northern New Jersey centered around the township of Edison. These populations have shown greater growth over the past decade than Chinatown itself. The Chinese immigrant community in Metropolitan New York City is restructuring in a more dispersed, diverse ethnic landscape.

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Authors: McGlinn, Lawrence

Periodical (Full): Middle States Geographer

Issue: 0

Volume: 35

Pages: 110-119

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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