About this title: This is the first comprehensive study of how U.S. immigration policies have shaped - demographically, economically, and socially - the six largest Asian American communities: Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Asian Indian. For each group, the book offers detailed information, on gender, age, birth-place, geographic settlement, employment profiles, income, and poverty. The author questions the validity of the images of Asian Americans as academic 'whiz kids', their communities as relatively lacking in strong political interests, and the presence of a unified Asian American ...
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Description: Very clean, tight book in bright, unworn dustjacket. As new. Review copy with Publisher's slip laid in. 8vo, 340pp, appendices, notes, bibliog, index. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780804721189ISBN:0804721181
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0804721181. 8vo. read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford
Date Published: 1995
Description: Very good trade paperback. Light wear and rubbing along edges of covers with creasing on lower corner of front cover and some light scuffing to covers. Lower edges of first few pages are lightly creased. Clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. 340 pages with tables, endnotes, bibliography, and index. read more
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