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Chinese who emigrate have the tendency to congregate in their adopted country. They seem to stay together much more than other immigrant groups. There are Chinatowns in every major city in Southeast Asia, and there are Chinese communities on the continents of Australia, Europe, South and North America. In the United States, there are dozens of Chinatowns, but they did not develop when the first settlers came here during the last century. The initial formation of Chinatowns in the United States was not voluntary.
“Old Chinatown Ghettos” from The New Chinatown by Peter Kwong. Copyright 1988 by Peter Kwong. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
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Kwong, P. (1992). The Old Chinatown Ghettos. In: Poston, D.L., Yaukey, D. (eds) The Population of Modern China. The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1231-2_7
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