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Article: Ethnicity and Entreprenuership: The New Chinese Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area
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- The International Migration Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Center for Migration Studies Summer 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Ethnicity and Entreprenuership: The New Chinese Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. By Bernard Wong. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. Pp. 120. $14.00.
Ethnicity and Entreprenuership is part of an Allyn and Bacon series designed to examine the characteristics, lives, cultures and contributions of new American immigrants through ethnographic case studies. The author, Bernard Wong, focuses on how new Chinese immigrants use ethnic and personal resources to make economic adaptations, especially through entrepreneurial activities.
The book begins by discussing the history of Chinese immigration and the San Francisco setting for this study. It then covers reasons for the new immigration and ...