One Hundred and Fifty Years of “The Chinese Question

An Intergroup Relations Perspective on Immigration and Globalization

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8094630
AutoresPriya Mariana Shimpi (autor de correspondencia), Sabrina Zirkel (0009-0001-8421-633X)
Año2012
Volumen68
Número3
Páginas534-558
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01762.x
OpenAlexW1599923878
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas45

Increased migration is, in many ways, the sine qua non of globalization. In this manuscript, we examine the single case of Chinese American immigration in the United States over a 150‐year period to explore how race and interracial attitudes shape immigrant–host relations in very deep ways. We find remarkably little change in the valence of these conversations or even in the precise content of the depictions of Chinese Americans over time. A detailed analysis of depictions and conversations about Chinese Americans in a variety of contexts finds that European Americans in the United States often describe them as: (1) self‐segregating, (2) lacking loyalty to the United States, and (3) hardworking and successful, but simultaneously lacking in “humanity.” We highlight the way such depictions ignore any attention to basic facts; we use these data to discuss the ways that race and interracial interaction form the core of immigrant–host relations; and we use this case study to highlight how race shapes immigrant–host relations around the globe

Chinese americans · Globalization · Globe · Immigration · Loyalty · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology