Beyond the City and the Bridge
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Beyond the City and the Bridge

East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb

  1. 175 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Beyond the City and the Bridge

East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb

About this book

Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award, Scholarly Non-fiction
Winner of the Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Association
Honorable Mention, 2019 American Sociological Association Book Award - Asia/Asian American Section


In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, Bergen County, on the west side of the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan and New Jersey. Since the 1970s, successive waves of immigrants from East Asia have transformed this formerly white community into one of the most diverse suburbs in the greater New York region. Fort Lee today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast, with Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans forming distinct communities while influencing the structure and everyday life of the borough. Noriko Matsumoto explores the rise of this multiethnic suburb—the complex processes of assimilation and reproduction of ethnicities, the changing social relationships, and the conditions under which such transformations have occurred.  

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Globalizing Suburbia
  6. Chapter 1. A Town of Immigrants
  7. Chapter 2. Community and Communities
  8. Chapter 3. Strategies of Assimilation and Distinction
  9. Chapter 4. Accommodating “Others”
  10. Chapter 5. Remaking Asian Ethnicity in Suburbia
  11. Conclusion: Reconsidering Assimilation and Ethnicity in the American Suburb
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author