Found inside â Page 185( 2 ) A juvenile court order , issued by a court of competent jurisdiction located in the United States , showing that the ... of Certain United States Businesses Operating in Hong Kong AGENCY : Immigration and Naturalization Service , Justice . Found inside â Page 2A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese ... Examining the questions around migration into Hong Kong from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this book combines quantitative and qualitative data to portray a detailed image of contemporary Hong Kong. Includes statistics. This book continues the exploration of the exclusion era begun in two previous volumes: Entry Denied, which examines the strategies that Chinese Americans used to protest, undermine, and circumvent the exclusion laws; and Claiming America, ... In Remaking Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao explores the myriad forces that changed and unified Chinese Americans during a key period in American history. During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. From these documents, Romero crafts a vividly personal and compelling story of individual lives caught in an extensive network of early transnationalism. This book challenges the notion that Asian Americans are apathetic or apolitical about civic engagement, reminding us that political involvement would often have been a life-threatening act in their homeland. " Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new "Immigration to the United States" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Found inside â Page 96In contrast to the situation in the United States , Baker and Benjamin ( 1993 ) find that immigrants in Canada have a lower ... However , if the U.S. experience is any guide , a change in Hong Kong's immigration selection criteria that favours ... Found inside â Page 279for Hong Kong by allowing most immigrant visa recipients to delay decisions on leaving Hong Kong until as late as 2002 . ... The United States also has a deep interest in protecting human rights in Hong Kong , as we do throughout the world . This is the "Traditional Chinese" version of An Interpretive History of the Valiant Chinese in America written by the author. This landmark volume shines new light on the Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. Found inside â Page 48Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law. The question is , what can the United States do to help the people of Hong Kong ? Traces the history of the Chinese in the United States focusing on their struggle for acceptance by the white population and their contributions to the development of their new country. Found insideInterweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American. Written by specialists on the Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean, this book tells the story of Asian migration to the Americas and contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the Chinese in this important part of the world. This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese in the United States originated. This comprehensive guide, edited and written by an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars, provides an authoritative account of the most recent surge of immigrants. These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racialization theories, and emerging ... The book discusses domestic as well as international influencing factors in Asian American history, thereby providing information within a transnational framework. From Chinese Americans in Chicagoland to Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, this multi-disciplinary collection spans a wide comparative and panoramic scope. Found inside â Page 99The most comprehensive examination of the migration of Hong Kong people after the ... Canada was the most open to Hong Kong immigration , the United States ... Based largely on interviews from residents of Atlanta's Chinese community, this book provides new insights on the rise of Asian communities in the Southeast United States since the US immigration policy changes in 1965. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing how and why the perception of Asian immigrants changed over time. Found inside â Page 10All competent authorities, including the Hong Kong Government, accept that there are at least 1 million refugees. Some estimates ... 1957 1968 1959 1960 Marcb 1961 Hons Kong immigration controls established in April 1950. Hambro report ... Chinese immigrants first reached the shores of California in the mid 1800s. First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This is the "Simplified Chinese" version of An Interpretive History of the Valiant Chinese in America written by the author. The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, in order to reveal the emergence of a new social hierarchy after 1965. American Exodus is the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese Americans. American Paper Son is the story of one such Chinese immigrant who came to Wichita, Kansas, in 1935 as a thirteen-year-old "paper son" to help in his father's restaurant there. This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. Found inside â Page 6Current State of the 1990 Changes in Immigration and Nationality Law ... 1:9 Per-country limits on preference immigrantsâHong Kong per-country levels The new law provides 10,000 visas per year through fiscal year 1993 for Hong Kong, ... This is an important study of personal experiences and policy in Cold War America."--Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University "How did the 'yellow peril' become the 'model minority'? These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racialization theories, and emerging ... This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Found insideThe author tells these wonderful life stories and adeptly uses them to track larger historical processes and phenomena.â âKornel Chang, author of Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands "By examining Eurasian ... 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