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- Title: Homeland Origins and Political Identities Among Chinese Americans (4C Paper)
- Author : Chinese America: History and Perspectives
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 229 KB
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The Chinese population in the United States consists of persons with multiple origins and diverse histories. In what ways do Chinese Americans of various ancestral homeland origins identify themselves politically in the United States? How does homeland origin explain the ethnic group identity and other political preferences for immigrants and their descendants in the adopted homeland? Through analyses of individual political behavior, this paper seeks to understand the scope and sources of political identities among U.S. residents of Chinese descent whose families originated from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere in Asia. After profiling the contemporary Chinese American population with U.S. census and immigration data and brief accounts of its recent trans-Pacific community formation, we discuss the nature and types of identity formation for a heterogeneous, transnational, and nonwhite minority population in the United States. Then, we use a large-scale opinion survey of Chinese Americans in Southern California to examine the direction and sources of ethnic, national, and political ideological identities and their relationship to homeland origins, transnational ties, and adaptation experiences in the United States. FROM DIFFERENT SHORES: A SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF CHINESE AMERICANS