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THE NEW ASIAN IMMIGRATION IN LOS ANGELES AND GLOBALRESTRUCTURING Edited by Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich and Lucie Cheng. Philadelphia (Pennsylvania): Temple University Press. 1994. xi, 331 pp. (Tables.) US$49.95, cloth, ISBN 1-56639-217-9; US$22.95, paper, ISBN 1-56639-21&7.
THE VOLUME IS A SEQUEL to an earlier study entitled Labor Immigration under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II(Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984), edited by Cheng and Bonacich. This present collection analyzes the features of what is labeled the "new" Asian immigration that has occurred in the postwar period.
Central to the understanding of the "new immigration" is the fact that the pre-war domination...