Emigrant Communities in South China.

Ta, Chen

doi:10.2307/2262863

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“…A remittance economy emerged, with wives, children, and the elderly left behind in the village (cf. Chen 1939). This was the sojourner 9 phase of the Man diaspora-the period during which I lived in San Tin.…”

Section: The Sojourner Phasementioning

confidence: 97%

Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Watson¹

2004

J of Asian Stud

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Section: The Sojourner Phasementioning

confidence: 97%

Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Watson¹

2004

J of Asian Stud

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“…Fujian has a long history of cross‐border migration (Chen, 1940). However, before the 1990s, no local community had any contact with the Middle East, let alone emigration to Israel, which was reported as a hostile state in the PRC’s media since the 1950s.…”

Section: A Hostile Country Becomes a New Migration Destinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making a living at the interface of legality and illegality: Chinese migrant workers in Israel¹

2012

International Migration

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Since the late 1990s, Israel has become a new destination for Chinese migrant workers. In the view of many studies conducted in Israel, the Chinese migrant workers are often a neglected and almost invisible group. The purpose of this paper is to explore the initiation of this migration trend and its social consequences. The major discussion of this study focuses on how the whole process of migration is carried out at the interface between legality and illegality. Research in the sending area suggests that the urgent need for manual labour in Israel provides possibilities to attract both documented and undocumented migrant workers and therefore turns labour transportation into a profitable business. Although no one agrees that undocumented working activities should continue, all of the factors interact and result in a permissive situation allowing this particular combination of the illegal but licit to persist in transnational labour migration. More than anything else, this micro-level study attempts to find the true story from the individual voices of local people.

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“…Many of the first Chinese immigrants to the US were followers of Hong Xiuquan, a Chinese Christian prophet who led the Taiping rebellion against the Manchu dynasty (Chen, 1940;Fong, 2000;Spence, 1996). Approximately one third of Chinese Americans are Christians (Yang, 1999), in contrast to a much smaller number of their counterparts in Asia.…”

Section: The Diverse Faith Held By Chinese Americansmentioning

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“…In the 19th century, the first major influx of Chinese arrived in the United States (US). This first group, comprising mostly farmers, emigrated from Southern China to help build US railroads (Chen, 1940). After the railroads were built, however, some laborers were forced out of the US and the remaining population experienced various degrees of discrimination, including violence and the denial of citizenship.…”

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Religious Involvement Effects on Mental Health in Chinese Americans

Huang¹,

Appel²,

Ai³

et al. 2011

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Faith has been shown to serve a protective role in the mental health of African Americans and European Americans. However, little research has examined whether any association exists in Asian Americans. Using the National Latino and Asian American Study dataset, we examined the effect of religious attendance on the mental health of Asian Americans in the United States. The present study focused on Chinese Americans because they are the largest Asian American group. The results revealed that almost 80% of the respondents were foreign-born and that their English proficiency had a positive association with their self-rated mental health. Being male correlated significantly to higher levels of mental health self-rating. After controlling for known predictive variables, such as demographics, cultural and immigration variables, more frequent religious attendance significantly predicted higher self-rating of mental health. These findings suggest that faith may have a unique protective role in Chinese Americans’ mental health

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Emigrant Communities in South China.

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Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Making a living at the interface of legality and illegality: Chinese migrant workers in Israel¹

Religious Involvement Effects on Mental Health in Chinese Americans

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Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

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