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• “Involuntary Migration, Context of Reception, and Social Mobility: The Case of Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement in the United States” (with Bankston). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1724411

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• “The Reigning Misperception about Culture and Asian American Achievement” (with Lee). Ethnic and Racial Studies 13 (3): 508-515, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1678760

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• “Precarious Talent: Highly Skilled Chinese and Indian Immigrants in Singapore” (with Zhan). Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(9): 1654-1672, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1648847

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• “New Dynamics of Multinational Migration: Chinese and Indian Migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles” (with Zhan and Aricat). Geographical Research.” Geographical Research 58 (4): 365-376, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12397

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• “Promoting Research on Global Chinese Philanthropy: An Introduction to the Special Issue” (guest-edited by Min Zhou). China Nonprofit Review 11(2):193-204, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1163/18765149-12341362

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• “The Model Minority Stereotype and the National Identity Question: The Challenges Facing Asian Immigrants and Their Children” (with Bankston). Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(1): 233-253, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1667511

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• “Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing up in America” (with Gonzales). Annual Review of Sociology 45:383-99, 2019. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-soc-073018-022424

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• “Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Children’s Education: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Immigrant Parenting in the United States and Singapore” (with Wang). Genealogy 3(20), published online 2019 https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3020020 

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• “Educational Expectations, Challenges, Institutional Constraints, and Social Support: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Immigrant Parenting in the U.S. and Singapore” (with Wang) (中国新移民的教育期望及其面临的挑战、制度限制和社会支持——以美国和新加坡为例). Overseas Chinese History Studies《华侨华人历史研究》4: 1-9, 2019.

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• “Simultaneous Embeddedness in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Global Forces behind Chinese-Owned Nail Salons in New York City” (with You). American Behavioral Scientist 63(2): 165-185, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218793684 

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• “Remittances for Collective Consumption and Social Status Compensation: Variations on Transnational Practices among Chinese Migrants” (with Li). International Migration Review 52(1):4-42 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12268

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• Nazareno, Jennifer, Min Zhou, and Tianlong You. 2018. “Global Dynamics of Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Changing Trends, Ethnonational Variations, and Reconceptualizations” (Nazareno and You). International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 25(5): 780-800, 2018.

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• “Hyper-Selectivity and the Remaking of Culture: Understanding the Asian American Achievement Paradox” (with Lee). Asian American Journal of Psychology 8 (1): 7-15 2017. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000069

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• “Economy and Society in Ethnic Communities: Revisiting the Ethnic Enclave Economy Theory” (with Di)（族裔聚居区的经济与社会：对聚居区族裔经济理论的检视和反思）Sociological Studies《社会学研究》4 (in Chinese): 193-217, 2016.

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• “Cross-Space Consumption: Grassroots Transnationalism among Undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the United States” (2016). Sociology of Development 2 (2): 158-182, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2016.2.2.158

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• “Homeland Engagement and Host-Society Integration: A Comparative Study of New Chinese Immigrants in the United States and Singapore” (with Liu). International Journal of Comparative Sociology 57 (1-2): 30-52, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715216637210

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• “Encountering Strangers in an Emerging Global City: Chinese Attitudes toward African Migrants in Guangzhou, China” (with Shenasi and Xu). The International Journal of Sociology 46 (2): 141-161, 2016. DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2016.1163984

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• “Entrepreneurship and Interracial Dynamics: A Case Study of Self-Employed Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou, China” (with Xu and Shenasi). Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (9): 1566-1586, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2015.1125008

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• “Intra-Diaspora Dynamics in Generational Formation: The Case of Chinese America.” Diaspora 18 (1-2): 89-116, 2015.

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• “Segmented Assimilation and Socio-economic Integration of Chinese Immigrant Children in the United States.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 37 (7): 1172-83, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2014.874566

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• “Assessing What Is Cultural about Asian Americans’ Academic Advantage” (a commentary with Lee).  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (23): 8321-8322, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1407309111 

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• “Transnationalism and Community Building: Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States” (with R. Lee). ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647: 22-49, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716212472456

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• “'Asian', 'Yellow', or 'Honorary White'? Positionality and Identity of Asian Americans in the US Racial Hierarchy.” （“亚裔人”、“黄种人”、“名誉白人”？亚裔族群在美国种族分层制度中的社会定位和身份认同）. The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies 《华人研究国际学报》5 (1): 51-72, 2013 (in Chinese).

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• “Transnationalism and Development: Mexican and Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States” (with Portes). Population and Development Review 38 (2): 191-220, 2012. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00489.x

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• “Transnationalism and Homeland Development: A Comparative Analysis of Mexican and Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States” (with Portes)（国际移民的跨国主义实践与移民祖籍国的发展：美国墨西哥裔和华裔社团的比较)The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies《华人研究国际学报》13 (1): 1-29, 2011.

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• “Noneconomic Effects of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Focused Look at the Chinese and Korean Enclave Economies in Los Angeles” (with Cho). Thunderbird International Business Review 52 (2) 83-96, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.20316

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• “How Neighborhoods Matter for Immigrant Children: The Formation of Educational Resources in Chinatown, Koreatown, and Pico Union, Los Angeles.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35 (7): 1153-1179, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691830903006168

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• “The Chinese and International Migration: Historical Review and Sociological Analysis”（华人国际移民的历史回顾和社会学分析). The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies 《华人研究国际学报》1: 51-72, 2009.

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• "Trapped in Neglected Corners of a Booming Metropolis: Residential Patterns and Marginalization of Migrant Workers in Guangzhou" (with Guoxuan Cai). Pp. 226-249 in John R. Logan (ed.), Urban China in Transition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing,, 2008. [View pdf]

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• "The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education: Non-profit and Forprofit Institutions in Los Angeles Chinese Immigrant Community." Pp. 229-251 in Beth Shinn and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, eds., Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. [View pdf]

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• "Becoming Ethnic or Becoming American? Tracing the Mobility Trajectories of the New Second Generation in the United States" (with Lee). Du Bois Review 4 (1): 1-17, 2007. [View pdf]

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• "The Non-Economic Effects of Ethnic Entrepreneurship." Pp. 279-288 in Leo-Paul Dana (eds.), Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: A Co- Evolutionary View on Resource Management. Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. [View pdf]

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• “Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement: The Case of Supplementary Education in the Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities” (with Kim).  Harvard Educational Review, 76 (1): 1-29, 2006. [View pdf]

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• "Negotiating Culture and Ethnicity: Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States." Pp. 315-336 in Ram Mahalingam, ed., Cultural Psychology of Immigrants. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. [View pdf]

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• "Delinquency and Acculturation in the Twenty-First Century: A Decades Change in a Vietnamese American Community" (with Bankston). Pp. 117-139 in Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Abel Valenzuela Jr., eds., Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race, and Violence. New York: New York University Press, 2006. [View pdf] 

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• “Chinese Language Media and Immigrant Life in the United States and Canada” (with Chen and Cai). Pp. 42-74 in Wanning Sun, ed., Media and Chinese Diaspora: Community, Commerce and Consumption in Asia and Pacific. New York: Routledge, 2006. [View pdf]

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• “The Paradox of Ethnicization and Assimilation: The Development of Ethnic Organizations in the Chinese Immigrant Community in the United States” (with Kim).  Pp. 231-252 in Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Evelyn Hu-DeHart, eds., Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. [View pdf]

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• “The Chinese Diaspora and International Migration.”  Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 1 (1): 161-190, 2006.. [View pdf]

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• “Community Transformation and the Formation of Ethnic Capital: The Case of Immigrant Chinese Communities in the United States” (with Lin).  Journal on Chinese Overseas 1 (2): 260-284, 2005. [View pdf]

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• “The Multifaceted American Experience of the Children of Asian Immigrants: Lessons for Segmented Assimilation” (with Xiong).  Ethnic and Racial Studies 28 (6): 1119-1152, 2005. [View pdf]

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• “Are Asian Americans Becoming White?” Context, 3 (1): 29-37, 2004. [View pdf]

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• “Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergences, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements.”  International Migration Review 38 (3): 1040-1074, 2004. [View pdf]

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• “The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity among Asian American Youth” (with Lee), In Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, eds., Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity, New York: Routledge, 2004. [View pdf]

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• “The Role of the Enclave Economy in Immigrant Adaptation and Community Building: The Case of New York’s Chinatown.”  Pp. 37-60 John Sibley Butler and George Kozmetsky, eds., Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship: Building American Communities.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. [View pdf]

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• “Assimilation, The Asian Way” pp. 139-153 in Tamar Jacoby, ed., Reinventing the Melting Pot: How Assimilation Can Work for the New Immigrants, New York: Basic Books, 2003. [View pdf]

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• “A Tale of Two Metropolises: Immigrant Chinese Communities in New York and Los Angeles” (with Kim), pp.124-149 in David Halle, ed., Los Angeles and New York in the New Millennium, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. [View pdf]

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• “Ethnic Language Schools and the Development of Supplementary Education in the Immigrant Chinese Community in the United States” (with Li), New Directions for Youth Development: Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth (Winter): 57-73, 2003. [View pdf]

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• “Chinese: Once Excluded, Now Ascendant.”  Pp. 37-44 in Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles (eds.), The New Faces of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century.  Jointly published by AsianWeek, UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, and the Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development, 2003. [View pdf]

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• “Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States” (with Bankston III and Kim).  Pp. 37-70 in Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim, eds.,  Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities.  Walnut Creek, Ca.: AltaMira Press, 2002. [View pdf]

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• “The Chinese Language Media in the United States: Immigration and Assimilation in American Life” (with Cai).  Qualitative Sociology 25 (3): 419-440, 2002. [View pdf]

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• “Contemporary Immigration and the Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity.”  Pp. 200-242 in Neil Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, eds., America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences.  Volume I.  Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.  Washington D. C.: National Academy Press, 2001. [View pdf]

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• “Chinese: Divergent Destinies in Immigrant New York.”  Pp. 141-172 in Nancy Foner, ed., New Immigrants in New York.  Second edition.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. [View pdf]

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• “Mapping the Terrain: Asian American Diversity and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century” (with Gatewood).  Asian American Policy Review 9: 5-29, 2000. [View pdf]

 

• “Coming of Age: The Current Situation of Asian American Children.”  Amerasia Journal 25 (1): 1-27, 1999. [View pdf]

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• “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California: The Educational Experience of Chinese Children in Transnational Families,” Educational Policy, 12 (6): 682-704, 1998. [View pdf]

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• "Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation." International Migration Review 31 (4): 825-858, 1997. [View pdf]

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• “Growing Up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants,” Annual Review of Sociology, 23: 63-95, 1997. [View pdf]

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• “Social Capital in Chinatown: the Role of Community-Based Organizations and Families in the Adaptation of the Younger Generation.”  Pp. 181-206 in Lois Weis and Maxine S. Seller (eds.), Beyond Black and White: New Voices, New Faces in the United States Schools.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. [View pdf]

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• “Self‑employment and the Earnings of Immigrants” (with Portes).  American Sociological Review 61 (2): 219-230, 1996. [View pdf]

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• “Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban China” (with Logan).  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20 (3): 400-421, 1996. [View pdf]

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• “Low-Wage Employment and Social Mobility: The Experience of Immigrant Chinese Women in New York City.”  National Journal of Sociology 9 (Summer): 1-30, 1995. [View pdf]

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• “Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans East” (with Bankston III).  International Migration Review 28 (4):775-799, 1994. [View pdf]

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• “Work and Its Place in the Lives of Immigrant Women: Garment Workers in New York City’s Chinatown” (with Nordquist).  Applied Behavioral Science Review 2 (2):187-211, 1994. [View pdf]

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• “The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants” (with Portes).  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 530 (November): 74‑96, 1993. [View pdf]

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• “In and Out of Chinatown: Residential Mobility and Segregation of New York City’s Chinese” (with Logan).  Social Forces 70 (2): 387‑407, 1991. [View pdf]

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• “Returns on Human Capital in Ethnic Enclaves: New York City’s Chinatown” (with Logan).  American Sociological Review 54 (October): 809‑820, 1989. [View pdf]