Gendering processes in immigration for Chinese American and Japanese American women
Abstract
Structural factors during Chinese and Japanese immigration and settlement processes required families to adapt in ways that altered traditional gender behaviors. This study examines how two factors – spousal immigration order and family economic structure – affected the gendered division of labor and how gender roles consequently were reconstructed for first and second generation Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans. These issues are investigated through secondary data analysis of 21 in‐depth interviews with daughters of Chinese and Japanese immigrants on the West Coast.
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Citation
Dona, J. and Ferguson, S.J. (2004), "Gendering processes in immigration for Chinese American and Japanese American women", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 23 No. 3/4/5, pp. 80-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610150410787747
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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