From the Central Kingdom to the Gold Mountain: Chinese Immigration to the United States (1820-1943)

The crucial link between micro- and macro-levels is social networks used by immigrants in the migration process. A key factor here is the world capitalist economy that influenced the conditions of the sending and the receiving countries; affected the formation of the U.S. immigration policy, which prompted the Chinese immigrants to use social networks to fight hard against the discriminatory immigration policy and changed the pattern of Chinese immigration. In a word, the penetration of the world capitalist economy into peripheral countries creates a migratory population that tend to flow into developed countries. And the expansion of the world economy influences the social and economic structure of the sending and the receiving countries that also induce migration across national borders.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Cai, Yang

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tim F.T.Liao

• Economics, History

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9904402

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86243