Events

25 Jun 2024

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Hong Kong Time)

LT4, UG/F, Wong Foo Yuan Building (FYB), CUHK

Prof. Min ZHOU
• Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications, Director of the Asia Pacific Center at UCLA
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, CUHK
• Academician of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S)

Min Zhou, Ph.D. (sociology), is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications, and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). Her main research areas are in migration & development, race and ethnicity, Chinese diaspora, the sociology of Asia and Asian America, and urban sociology, and She has published widely in these areas, including the award-winning book The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015), The Rise of the New Second Generation (with Bankston, 2016), Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (ed., 2017), Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants around the World (ed., 2021, in traditional Chinese), and Beyond Economic Migration: Historical, Social, and Political Factors in US Immigration (eds., with Mahmud, 2023). She was the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Career Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on International Migration and the 2020 Contribution to the Field Award of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America.

Registration at https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13689303

(852) 3943 6271 or sociology@cuhk.edu.hk

The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce an upcoming seminar titled “The Classed Ethnoracialization of Space in Los Angeles, USA”, presented by our Distinguished Visiting Professor, Prof. Min ZHOU from UCLA. This seminar is co-organized with the Center for Population Research (CPR) at CUHK.

This lecture zooms in on the relationship between urbanization and migration to address a central question: How have urbanization and immigration dynamics intertwined to shape and reshape the built environment, creating opportunities and challenges that are consequential for immigrant integration? Using Los Angeles as a case, Professor Min Zhou will offer an analysis of the classed ethnoracialization of space—Latinization of South Los Angeles and Asianization of the San Gabriel Valley (LA’s suburb). She shows that ethnoracial spatialization is affected by historically unique urban development and contemporary immigrant selectivity, leading to evolving spatial patterns along nonlinear and non-White-centric dimensions of residential assimilation, more specifically, along Black-Latino and White-Asian axes. In South LA, Latino immigrants live alongside Black residents. Shared experiences of racism and socioeconomic deprivation widen Black-Brown linked fate to create novel platforms for place-based identity formation and political resistance. In the San Gabriel Valley, Chinese immigrants of diverse class and cultural backgrounds carve out a different path to residential assimilation by building an American ethnoburb without much contact with Whites. Despite clear inequalities across the Black-Latino and White-Asian axes, neither case converges uniformly towards Whiteness. She concludes by discussing the implications of these intersecting dynamics for research on racial segregation and structural inequality.