A Framework for Immigration: Asians in the United States

by Uma Segal

Overview

Although stereotypically portrayed as academic and economic achievers, Asian Americans often live in poverty, underserved by human services, undercompensated in the workforce, and subject to discrimination. Although often perceived as a single, homogenous group, there are significant differences between Asian American cultures that affect their experience. Segal, an Asian American immigrant herself, analyzes Asian immigration to the U.S., including immigrants' reasons for leaving their countries, their attraction to the U.S., the issues they face in contemporary U.S. society, and the history of public attitudes and policy toward them. Segal observes that the profile of the Asian American is shaped not only by the immigrants and their descendents but by the nation's response to their presence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231120821
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/14/2002
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Uma Segal is associate professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and a fellow there in both the Public Policy Research Center and the Center for International Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Racism
1. Introduction: A Framework for the Immigration Experience
2. Pre-1965 Emigration: Leaving the Homeland for the United States
3. Post-1965 Emigration: Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy
4. Entry Into the United States and the Nation's Response to Asian Immigration
5. Asian Adjustment
6. Public Policies: Social Welfare, Housing, Education, and Criminal Justice
7. Public Policies: Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse
8. U.S.-Born Asian Americans
9. Implications, Directions, and Action Guidelines
Epilogue: Author's Immigration Experience
Notes
References
Index

What People are Saying About This

Roger Daniels

A valuable study of the problems facing contemporary immigrants from Asia that nicely balances the theoretical and the practical. Perhaps its greatest virtue is that it allows the reader to see not the "waves" of immigration from the East but a good sample of the individuals who are the reality that the immigration statistics often mask.

— Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History, University of Cincinnati

Harry Kitano

A valuable addition to understanding Asian Americans. Especially important is the concept of generations.

— Harry Kitano, University of California, Los Angeles

Shanti Khinduka

The social policy and practice intervention guidelines she provides are on target. This is a significant scholarly addition to the literature on ethnic and racial minorities and should be required reading for those who seek to understand the challenges confronting Asians and other people of color in the United States.

— Shanti Khinduka, Dean and George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor, Washington University

Editorial Reviews

This book is excellent reading...Framework for Immigration is an important contribution

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This book is excellent reading...Framework for Immigration is an important contribution

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This book is excellent reading... Framework for Immigration is an important contribution

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