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Min Zhou, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies

Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications

University of California, Los Angeles



Dr. Min Zhou is Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications, and the founding chair of Asian American Studies Department (2001-2005) at UCLA. Her main research interests include international migration, ethnic and racial relations, immigrant entrepreneurship, education and the new second generation, Asia and Asian America, and urban sociology. She is the author of Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (1992), The Transformation of Chinese America (2006), and Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (2009), co-author of Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (1998), co-editor of Contemporary Asian America (2000, 2nd ed. 2007), and co-editor of Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (2004).

 

E-mail: mzhou@soc.ucla.edu

Phone: (310) 825-3532 or (310) 825-1313

Fax: (310) 206-9838

 

All correspondence should be sent to:

Dr. Min Zhou
Department of Sociology
264 Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza
Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551


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Areas of Research

Immigration and Immigrant Adaptation

    • The Chinese Diaspora
    • Southeast Asian refugee flows
    • Intra-Asian migration
    • Labor market incorporation
    • Employment and earnings patterns
    • Entrepreneurship
    • The new second generation in the United States
      • Intergenerational social mobility
      • Intergenerational relations

     

  • Education
    • Education of immigrant and refugee children
    • The ethnic systems of supplementary education
    • After-school programs

     

  • Asian America
    • Asian American youth culture
    • Immigrant /emigrant / transnational communities
      • Enclave economies
      • Ethnic language media
      • Ethnic language schools
      • Ethnic organizations

     

  • Race and Ethnicity
    • Inter-group disparities
    • Intra-group diversity
    • Interethnic / interracial relations

     

  • Urban Sociology
    • Urban change impacted by internal and international migrations
    • Urban and suburban immigrant neighborhoods
    • Residential mobility
    • Internal migration in China
Written By: Min Zhou | Posted: 11:47 AM May 14, 2012
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