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On the Comparative Study of Immigrant and Ethnic Groups in the New World: A Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Roger Daniels
Roger Daniels
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University of Cincinnati
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The modern history of Asians in the New World is a long and complex one beginning with South Asian indentured laborers brought to the West Indies in the early decades of the nineteenth century and continuing into the present, when, in recent years, wholly apart from Southeast Asian refugees, Asians have amounted to about one in four of the legal migrants to the United States. Almost all of the literature about these immigrants and their descendants has been particularistic, focussing on one particular ethnic or national group residing within a limited geographical area, often as narrow as a particular city. This being the case, the articles in this journal by Stephen I. Thompson (1979) and Bernard Wong (1978) about the degree of relative assimilation of East Asians in Peru and the United States should be welcomed by all scholars interested in comparative ethnicity. Although the comments to follow are largely negative they should not be considered as dismissive of the value of the empirical research of either scholar; I have learned from each and hope to continue to do so.

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CSSH Discussion
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 401 - 404
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1983

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