The Church as a Surrogate Family for Working Class Immigrant Chinese Youth: An Ethnography of Segmented Assimilation

Cao, Nanlai

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“…When new Chinese immigrants arrive in the United States, they often join existing Chinese American communities (e.g., Chinatown or Chinese American churches) and are eager to know the stories of Chinese Americans who came to the U.S. earlier (Cao, 2005). This is particularly true in places with a long history of Chinese immigration and a dense population of Chinese Americans, such as in New York and California (where our research took place) (Zhou, 2010).…”

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Intergenerational Transmission of Tridimensional Cultural Orientations in Chinese American Families: The Role of Bicultural Socialization

Kim

Hou

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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It is important to understand the acculturation process of ethnic minority youth: To which cultures do they orient, and how do their cultural orientations develop? The present study tests a tridimensional acculturation model in Chinese American families and examines a potential mechanism through which parental cultural orientations may relate to adolescent cultural orientations. Participants were 350 Chinese American adolescents (Mage =17.04, 58% female) and their parents in Northern California. Results support the tridimensional acculturation model by demonstrating moderate associations among Chinese American orientation, Chinese orientation, and American orientation; our findings also point to a unique effect of parental Chinese American orientation on parental bicultural socialization beliefs. Most importantly, we identified an indirect pathway from parental to adolescents’ Chinese American orientation through adolescents’ internalization of parental bicultural socialization beliefs.

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Intergenerational Transmission of Tridimensional Cultural Orientations in Chinese American Families: The Role of Bicultural Socialization

Kim

Hou

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Bankston & Zhou (1995 argue that participation in an ethnic church provides children with protective social networks with coethnics, which facilitate adolescent success in school and adaptation to American society. Particularly for youth who are at risk for what the authors call "dangerous and destructive behavior," religious communities often serve as beneficial locations of social, financial, and surrogate parental support (Cao 2005;Guest 2003Guest , 2004. On the basis of research in a New York Chinatown church, Cao (2005) argues that, for working-class immigrant youth, churches act as surrogate families that facilitate the process of moving from the working class to the middle class, enlarging Portes & Rumbaut's (2001) argument about segmented assimilation.…”

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Immigration and Religion

2007

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This review synthesizes research about religion in the lives of post-1965 immigrants to the United States. Such research consists primarily of case studies, published since 1990, focused on individual religious organizations started and attended by immigrants. We analyze these case studies to demonstrate the different ways religion influences immigrants' adaptation in the United States. We then consider how religion informs immigrants' ethnic and gender-based identities, their experiences of civic and political life, and the lives of the second generation. We argue that current research is more descriptive than analytic overall, and we highlight a series of research questions and comparisons to enrich theoretical thinking. In particular, we advocate a comparative approach to examining immigrants' religious organizations and increased attention to a "lived religion" perspective, which takes seriously the ways religion is important for immigrants outside of religious organizations in social institutions, including civic organizations, families, workplaces, schools, and health-care organizations.

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“…On the one hand, research done by Cheng andShen (2011) andCao (2005), for example, has recognised the role of the church in creating social capital. This is a very powerful persuasion to the authorities that religion is not the opium of the people.…”

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The Trinity, the Church, and China's Harmonious Society: A Politics of Persuasion

Kung¹

2011

Studies in World Christianity

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Taking seriously Karl Rahner's comment that most Christians in their practical life are 'mere monotheists', this paper illustrates and argues how the Trinitarian God is better understood within the model of persuasion, and how this understanding of the Trinitarian God may shape what Chinese society may look like, how Chinese churches engage in a harmonious society, and how the Three-Self churches (official churches) and house churches (non-registered churches) treat one another. This paper has adopted a kind of social Trinitarianism, but it is not necessarily projectionist, for theology is always a human construction based on God's revelation. Bishop Ting has taken a courageous step to construct the Trinitarian God in terms of restoration of relations in order to respond to society, but his attempt is too absorbed by both Yihe Weigui and the ideology of a harmonious society. As a result, Chinese Christianity has been turned into a hexie (accommodating) Christianity. Taking both the cultural resources in terms of the Confucian tradition and the sociopolitical conditions in terms of the emergence of exchange politics into consideration, this paper suggests the Trinitarian God as a God of persuasion reflected in the Scripture and characterised by dialogue, respect of difference, participation, and good work, provides an alternative to a politics of propaganda and efficiency. This is what the Christian contribution to a harmonious society is.

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The Church as a Surrogate Family for Working Class Immigrant Chinese Youth: An Ethnography of Segmented Assimilation

Cited by 72 publications

References 13 publications

Intergenerational Transmission of Tridimensional Cultural Orientations in Chinese American Families: The Role of Bicultural Socialization

Intergenerational Transmission of Tridimensional Cultural Orientations in Chinese American Families: The Role of Bicultural Socialization

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