From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States by Zai Liang

From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States

Zai Liang
215 pages
University of California Press
Feb 2023
Paperback
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From Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas. Liang's study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.
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Pages 215
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Published 2023
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