M Zhou
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2697 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Zhou |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Zhou |
| ASSINATURA | ZHOU M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4692-7234 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 347 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The transformation of Asian America
Driven by civil rights activism, immigration reform, and globalization, Asian America has undergone profound transformations. These forces have fundamentally reshaped demographics, socioeconomic patterns, identity formation, and political participation. Established in 1968 amid the Asian American movement, Asian American studies has since expanded in theoretical, methodological, and institutional scope. Marking the 50th anniversary of Ethnic and …
Navigating restricted social rights
Reflecting on the theory of segmented assimilation
Segmented assimilation
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Involuntary transnationalism and regulated precarity
Transnationalism is often perceived as an agentic practice in migration studies. While acknowledging such agency, we argue that transnationalism also involves forced‐choice decision‐making by migrants whose work and daily lives are subjected to structural constraints beyond individual control. We employ the concept of ‘involuntary transnationalism’ to capture this often‐neglected dimension of transnationalism. Based on analysis of survey data and…
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Gender Construction in the Chinese Fandom of Korean Pop Culture
This research delves into the influence exerted by BTS and BLACKPINK, prominent K-pop idol groups, on Chinese K-pop fans’ perceptions of gender, gender equality, and inclusivity. Employing data collected through a comprehensive survey distributed among a diverse cohort of fans (35 young Chinese K- pop fans), the study examines the impact of these musical phenomena’s image and temperament on their Chinese followers’ conceptualization of gender con…
Philippine hedging strategy from the perspective of neoclassical realism
As the main diplomatic strategy of the Philippines towards China, the hedging strategy has been practiced for a long time. In recent years, with the acceleration of Sino-American Geopolitical Competition, as well as the transfer of power in the Asia Pacific region, Southeast Asian countries are facing new strategic decision-making pressure. From the perspective of neoclassical realism, systemic pressure is transmitted through internal factors wit…
The trajectory of the colour line in a US immigrant gateway
Focusing on LA, we show that 1) socioeconomic inequality in LA has increasingly emerged since the 1970s along two axes, Black-Latino and White-Asian, and that 2) the structure of residential segregation in LA intersects immigration dynamics to create unique patterns of isolation within groups and exposure between groups, setting distinctive conditions for interaction and identity formation. Two case studies - South LA and the San Gabriel Valley (…
Divergent experiences and patterns of integration
Since China's open-door and economic reform in 1979, new waves of emigration from the country have been increasingly diverse with highly skilled immigrants on one hand and unskilled or undocumented immigrants on the other. Based on data from an online survey and in-depth interviews of contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, we explore two main questions: (1) How do Chinese immigrants negotiate integration and identity as they…
Family, Gender, Ethnicity, and Pragmatism in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship has been an integral part of the long-standing history of Chinese emigration and a central force in diasporic development. This special issue includes six articles and one research report pertaining to contemporary patterns and emergent themes of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship. As the special issue editor, I highlight the distinctive characteristics of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship and discuss the significance of conside…
Understanding Intraethnic Diversity
This paper fills a scholarly gap in the understanding of intraethnic diversity by way of a case study of the formation of a Taiwanese American identity. Drawing on a review of the existing scholarly literature and data from systematic field observations, as well as secondary data including ethnic organizations’ mission statements and activity reports, we explore how internal and external processes intersect to drive the construction of a distinct…
Gender and Transnational Dynamics in Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Immigrant enterprises, especially those in the service sector of the urban economy, are largely gendered and seemingly localized. However, the intersection of gender and transnationalism is often overlooked in the research literature. To fill this gap, we draw on the literature of mixed embeddedness and transnationalism to advance an analytical framework of simultaneous embeddedness to explain the gendered pattern of immigrant entrepreneurship. W…
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility
In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic community. We then provide a quantitative analysis of socioeconomic mobility among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and other national-level data. We examine how this ethnic …
The reigning misperception about culture and Asian American achievement
Asian Americans graduate from college at higher rates than other groups, and evince educational outcomes that match or exceed those of their parents. They comprise about 25 per cent of the student body in Ivy League institutions, despite making up only 6 per cent of the U.S. population. While it may be tempting to reduce Asian American academic achievement to Asian culture, and Confucian values more specifically, we provide disconfirming evidence…
The model minority stereotype and the national identity question
A central issue in contemporary debates over immigration concerns how immigrants from diverse origins become integrated into their host nation. The children of Asian immigrants in the United States often give the impression of fitting neatly into American society and therefore into the American nation as a model minority. We argue, however, that such perception is a misleading overgeneralization and can bring about simplistic interpretations. The…
Precarious Talent
This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their strategies of adaptation. We employ the term "precarious talent" to capture an often neglected aspect of skilled migration. Using both survey data and interviews on skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore, we find that these migrants confront varying degrees of employment insecurity and settlement uncertainty in an era of neoliberal globalization, c…
Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Children’s Education
Confucian heritage culture holds that a good education is the path to upward social mobility as well as the road to realizing an individual’s fullest potential in life. In both China and Chinese diasporic communities around the world, education is of utmost importance and is central to childrearing in the family. In this paper, we address one of the most serious resettlement issues that new Chinese immigrants face—children’s education. We examine…
Promoting Research on Global Chinese Philanthropy
Promoting Research on Global Chinese
Hyper-selectivity and the remaking of culture
Asian Americans are frequently deployed as racial mascots by pundits who fixate on their extraordinary levels of educational attainment.They comprise only 5.5 percent of the U.S. population, yet about onefifth of the entering classes in Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.Pundits have attributed these educational outcomes to cultural factors, underpinned by values or traits that are innately Asian.However, this cultural expl…
Affirmative Action in China and the U. S
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy
This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as educat…
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Hyper-selectivity and the remaking of culture
Asian Americans are frequently deployed as racial mascots by pundits who fixate on their extraordinary levels of educational attainment.They comprise only 5.5 percent of the U.S. population, yet about onefifth of the entering classes in Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.Pundits have attributed these educational outcomes to cultural factors, underpinned by values or traits that are innately Asian.However, this cultural expl…
Family Pressure and the Educational Experience of the Daughters of Vietnamese Refugees
This article explores the issue of gender role changes encountered by young Vietnamese‐American women based on our ethnographic study of Versailles Village, a low‐income ethnic community in New Orleans, US. We examine how female Vietnamese high school students deal with conflicts between the stubborn traditionalism of parents and the desire for personal liberty of American‐reared children and how they negotiate gender roles at home and in school …
Community Transformation and the Formation of Ethnic Capital
In this article, we attempt to develop a conceptual framework of “ethnic capital” in order to examine the dynamics of immigrant communities. Building on the theories of social capital and the enclave economy, we argue that ethnic capital is not a thing but involves interactive processes of ethnic-specific financial capital, human capital, and social capital. We use case studies of century-old Chinatowns and emerging middle-class immigrant Chinese…
Precarious Talent
This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their strategies of adaptation. We employ the term "precarious talent" to capture an often neglected aspect of skilled migration. Using both survey data and interviews on skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore, we find that these migrants confront varying degrees of employment insecurity and settlement uncertainty in an era of neoliberal globalization, c…
The social adjustment of Vietnamese American adolescents
The segmented-assimilation approach to immigrant adjustment suggests that the benefits of assimilation for immigrant youth depend on the segment of society into which they assimilate. The purpose of this article is to examine how young Vietnamese Americans may be affected by association with peers of major American racial groups and with Americanized coethnics. This research uses U.S. Census data to establish that racial groups surrounding a part…
The model minority stereotype and the national identity question
A central issue in contemporary debates over immigration concerns how immigrants from diverse origins become integrated into their host nation. The children of Asian immigrants in the United States often give the impression of fitting neatly into American society and therefore into the American nation as a model minority. We argue, however, that such perception is a misleading overgeneralization and can bring about simplistic interpretations. The…
Divergent experiences and patterns of integration
Since China's open-door and economic reform in 1979, new waves of emigration from the country have been increasingly diverse with highly skilled immigrants on one hand and unskilled or undocumented immigrants on the other. Based on data from an online survey and in-depth interviews of contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, we explore two main questions: (1) How do Chinese immigrants negotiate integration and identity as they…
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility
In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic community. We then provide a quantitative analysis of socioeconomic mobility among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and other national-level data. We examine how this ethnic …
The reigning misperception about culture and Asian American achievement
Asian Americans graduate from college at higher rates than other groups, and evince educational outcomes that match or exceed those of their parents. They comprise about 25 per cent of the student body in Ivy League institutions, despite making up only 6 per cent of the U.S. population. While it may be tempting to reduce Asian American academic achievement to Asian culture, and Confucian values more specifically, we provide disconfirming evidence…
Segmented assimilation
The trajectory of the colour line in a US immigrant gateway
Focusing on LA, we show that 1) socioeconomic inequality in LA has increasingly emerged since the 1970s along two axes, Black-Latino and White-Asian, and that 2) the structure of residential segregation in LA intersects immigration dynamics to create unique patterns of isolation within groups and exposure between groups, setting distinctive conditions for interaction and identity formation. Two case studies - South LA and the San Gabriel Valley (…
Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Children’s Education
Confucian heritage culture holds that a good education is the path to upward social mobility as well as the road to realizing an individual’s fullest potential in life. In both China and Chinese diasporic communities around the world, education is of utmost importance and is central to childrearing in the family. In this paper, we address one of the most serious resettlement issues that new Chinese immigrants face—children’s education. We examine…
Family, Gender, Ethnicity, and Pragmatism in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship has been an integral part of the long-standing history of Chinese emigration and a central force in diasporic development. This special issue includes six articles and one research report pertaining to contemporary patterns and emergent themes of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship. As the special issue editor, I highlight the distinctive characteristics of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship and discuss the significance of conside…
Navigating restricted social rights
Gender and Transnational Dynamics in Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Immigrant enterprises, especially those in the service sector of the urban economy, are largely gendered and seemingly localized. However, the intersection of gender and transnationalism is often overlooked in the research literature. To fill this gap, we draw on the literature of mixed embeddedness and transnationalism to advance an analytical framework of simultaneous embeddedness to explain the gendered pattern of immigrant entrepreneurship. W…
Reflecting on the theory of segmented assimilation
Philippine hedging strategy from the perspective of neoclassical realism
As the main diplomatic strategy of the Philippines towards China, the hedging strategy has been practiced for a long time. In recent years, with the acceleration of Sino-American Geopolitical Competition, as well as the transfer of power in the Asia Pacific region, Southeast Asian countries are facing new strategic decision-making pressure. From the perspective of neoclassical realism, systemic pressure is transmitted through internal factors wit…
Understanding Intraethnic Diversity
This paper fills a scholarly gap in the understanding of intraethnic diversity by way of a case study of the formation of a Taiwanese American identity. Drawing on a review of the existing scholarly literature and data from systematic field observations, as well as secondary data including ethnic organizations’ mission statements and activity reports, we explore how internal and external processes intersect to drive the construction of a distinct…
Promoting Research on Global Chinese Philanthropy
Promoting Research on Global Chinese
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
The social adjustment of Vietnamese American adolescents
The segmented-assimilation approach to immigrant adjustment suggests that the benefits of assimilation for immigrant youth depend on the segment of society into which they assimilate. The purpose of this article is to examine how young Vietnamese Americans may be affected by association with peers of major American racial groups and with Americanized coethnics. This research uses U.S. Census data to establish that racial groups surrounding a part…
Family Pressure and the Educational Experience of the Daughters of Vietnamese Refugees
This article explores the issue of gender role changes encountered by young Vietnamese‐American women based on our ethnographic study of Versailles Village, a low‐income ethnic community in New Orleans, US. We examine how female Vietnamese high school students deal with conflicts between the stubborn traditionalism of parents and the desire for personal liberty of American‐reared children and how they negotiate gender roles at home and in school …
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy
This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as educat…
Community Transformation and the Formation of Ethnic Capital
In this article, we attempt to develop a conceptual framework of “ethnic capital” in order to examine the dynamics of immigrant communities. Building on the theories of social capital and the enclave economy, we argue that ethnic capital is not a thing but involves interactive processes of ethnic-specific financial capital, human capital, and social capital. We use case studies of century-old Chinatowns and emerging middle-class immigrant Chinese…
Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied
This article highlights divergent pathways to mobility among members of the new second generation, identifies key mechanisms affecting the choices they make in their pursuit of success, and explains how specific choices were pivotal in determining outcomes of segmented assimilation. First, the authors evaluate definitions of success and pathways to social mobility, advancing a subject-centered approach to study second-generation mobility. Second,…
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
Affirmative Action in China and the U. S
Hyper-selectivity and the remaking of culture
Asian Americans are frequently deployed as racial mascots by pundits who fixate on their extraordinary levels of educational attainment.They comprise only 5.5 percent of the U.S. population, yet about onefifth of the entering classes in Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.Pundits have attributed these educational outcomes to cultural factors, underpinned by values or traits that are innately Asian.However, this cultural expl…
Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Children’s Education
Confucian heritage culture holds that a good education is the path to upward social mobility as well as the road to realizing an individual’s fullest potential in life. In both China and Chinese diasporic communities around the world, education is of utmost importance and is central to childrearing in the family. In this paper, we address one of the most serious resettlement issues that new Chinese immigrants face—children’s education. We examine…
Promoting Research on Global Chinese Philanthropy
Promoting Research on Global Chinese
The reigning misperception about culture and Asian American achievement
Asian Americans graduate from college at higher rates than other groups, and evince educational outcomes that match or exceed those of their parents. They comprise about 25 per cent of the student body in Ivy League institutions, despite making up only 6 per cent of the U.S. population. While it may be tempting to reduce Asian American academic achievement to Asian culture, and Confucian values more specifically, we provide disconfirming evidence…
The model minority stereotype and the national identity question
A central issue in contemporary debates over immigration concerns how immigrants from diverse origins become integrated into their host nation. The children of Asian immigrants in the United States often give the impression of fitting neatly into American society and therefore into the American nation as a model minority. We argue, however, that such perception is a misleading overgeneralization and can bring about simplistic interpretations. The…
Precarious Talent
This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their strategies of adaptation. We employ the term "precarious talent" to capture an often neglected aspect of skilled migration. Using both survey data and interviews on skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore, we find that these migrants confront varying degrees of employment insecurity and settlement uncertainty in an era of neoliberal globalization, c…
Family, Gender, Ethnicity, and Pragmatism in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship has been an integral part of the long-standing history of Chinese emigration and a central force in diasporic development. This special issue includes six articles and one research report pertaining to contemporary patterns and emergent themes of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship. As the special issue editor, I highlight the distinctive characteristics of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship and discuss the significance of conside…
Understanding Intraethnic Diversity
This paper fills a scholarly gap in the understanding of intraethnic diversity by way of a case study of the formation of a Taiwanese American identity. Drawing on a review of the existing scholarly literature and data from systematic field observations, as well as secondary data including ethnic organizations’ mission statements and activity reports, we explore how internal and external processes intersect to drive the construction of a distinct…
Gender and Transnational Dynamics in Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Immigrant enterprises, especially those in the service sector of the urban economy, are largely gendered and seemingly localized. However, the intersection of gender and transnationalism is often overlooked in the research literature. To fill this gap, we draw on the literature of mixed embeddedness and transnationalism to advance an analytical framework of simultaneous embeddedness to explain the gendered pattern of immigrant entrepreneurship. W…
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility
In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic community. We then provide a quantitative analysis of socioeconomic mobility among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and other national-level data. We examine how this ethnic …
Divergent experiences and patterns of integration
Since China's open-door and economic reform in 1979, new waves of emigration from the country have been increasingly diverse with highly skilled immigrants on one hand and unskilled or undocumented immigrants on the other. Based on data from an online survey and in-depth interviews of contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, we explore two main questions: (1) How do Chinese immigrants negotiate integration and identity as they…
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Gender Construction in the Chinese Fandom of Korean Pop Culture
This research delves into the influence exerted by BTS and BLACKPINK, prominent K-pop idol groups, on Chinese K-pop fans’ perceptions of gender, gender equality, and inclusivity. Employing data collected through a comprehensive survey distributed among a diverse cohort of fans (35 young Chinese K- pop fans), the study examines the impact of these musical phenomena’s image and temperament on their Chinese followers’ conceptualization of gender con…
Philippine hedging strategy from the perspective of neoclassical realism
As the main diplomatic strategy of the Philippines towards China, the hedging strategy has been practiced for a long time. In recent years, with the acceleration of Sino-American Geopolitical Competition, as well as the transfer of power in the Asia Pacific region, Southeast Asian countries are facing new strategic decision-making pressure. From the perspective of neoclassical realism, systemic pressure is transmitted through internal factors wit…
The trajectory of the colour line in a US immigrant gateway
Focusing on LA, we show that 1) socioeconomic inequality in LA has increasingly emerged since the 1970s along two axes, Black-Latino and White-Asian, and that 2) the structure of residential segregation in LA intersects immigration dynamics to create unique patterns of isolation within groups and exposure between groups, setting distinctive conditions for interaction and identity formation. Two case studies - South LA and the San Gabriel Valley (…
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Involuntary transnationalism and regulated precarity
Transnationalism is often perceived as an agentic practice in migration studies. While acknowledging such agency, we argue that transnationalism also involves forced‐choice decision‐making by migrants whose work and daily lives are subjected to structural constraints beyond individual control. We employ the concept of ‘involuntary transnationalism’ to capture this often‐neglected dimension of transnationalism. Based on analysis of survey data and…
Navigating restricted social rights
Sociology (22 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (15 obras) · Ethnic group (14 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Immigration (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Social science (11 obras)