Immigrant Organizations in the United States: Transnationalism, Community Building, and Immigrant Incorporation

摘要: Immigrant organizations in the United States have proliferated by rapid international migration, globalization, and rise of new transportation communication technologies that facilitate long-distance cross-border flows recent years. The power influence these grown tandem with immigrants’ drive to make it America their obligations support families communities sending countries. An emergent literature on transnationalism has burgeoned since 1990s examine patterns immigrant settlement. However, existing research date put more emphasis effects transnationalismon development countries than receiving countries, paid attention groups from Latin those Asia, focused individual organization as unit analysis. As a consequence, we do not reliable knowledge impacts host society extent sources intergroup variations. In order fill this gap, further supplement gained American experiences, offer conceptual framework for systematic analysis relationship between community building illustrate Chinese case. We focus four main questions: a) How immigration shaped ethnic over time? b) What types existed how evolved ordeveloped c) Under what conditions some operate transnationally, kinds activities they engage themselves across national borders? d) bearings does organizational its group members? While directly contesting concepts assimilation, argue contributes incorporation nuanced ways are less understood. show immigrants often ancestral homelands via organizations. Organizational turn enhances capacity generate material symbolic resources conducive incorporation.