LUIAS Distinguished Lecture: What Chinatown Unfolds: Ethnic Enclaves, Immigrant Selectivity, and Segmented Assimilation
Organizer:Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study & Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Date: 25 March 2024 (Monday)
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Venue: LBY G01, B.Y. Lam Building

This lecture is sponsored by the Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study and co-organized by the Department of Sociology and Social Policy.

 

In this distinguished lecture, Prof. Min Zhou, Distinguished Professor from the University of California, Los Angeles, will present her study entitled “What Chinatown Unfolds: Ethnic Enclaves, Immigrant Selectivity, and Segmented Assimilation”. 

 

Abstract:

Chinatown has been one of the most significant ethnic enclaves in immigrant gateway cities of the United States. What makes Chinatown tick? And how does it affect immigrant integration? Recounting her nearly 40 years of living in the United States as an immigrant and a scholar of migration studies, which began in New York City’s Chinatown, Professor Min Zhou will engage with key sociological concepts of ethnic enclaves, immigrant selectivity, and segmented assimilation to explain why patterns of diasporic formation differ over time and why outcomes of social mobility are segmented and vary across ethnoracial groups. She will also share how her own lived experience as an ethnic Chinese has inspired and stimulated, as well as challenged or stretched, her sociological imagination and scholarship.

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