The Political Participation of Asian Americans
Subtitle: Voting Behavior in Southern California (Asian Americans - Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780815329848
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Social conditions; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; U.S. Practical Politics; Asians In The U.S.; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; USA; Political Process - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Government - U.S. Government; History / General; Asian Americans; California; Ethnic identity; Politics and government
First sentence: Although the first Asians arrived in present-day America long before the European immigrants, Asian Pacific Americans (Asians, hereafter) have not been considered as a viable political force in the mainstream electoral politics until recent decades when changes in U. S. immigration policies and laws as well as economic, social, and political forces within and outside the United States converged to forge a new and accelerated era of Asian immigration (Daniels 1988; Takaki 1989; Chan 1991; Reimers 1992; Hing 1993; Ong, Bonacich, and Cheng 1994; Kitano and Daniels 1995).