Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada by Vivienne Poy

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-178
Author(s):  
Patricia E. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Promise Land ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women

Internalization of ideal beauty among Chinese immigrant women

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 375-396
Author(s):  
Hojung Choo ◽  
Yoonja Nam ◽  
Soonyoung Kim ◽  
Jinah Son
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women

scholarly journals Acculturation and Insulin Resistance Among US Chinese Immigrant Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Tseng ◽  
Carolyn Y. Fang
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Resistance ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Chronic Disease Risk ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women ◽  
Homa Score

<p class="Pa7"><strong>Objective: </strong>Chinese immigrants in the Unit­ed States undergo a transition to increased chronic disease risk commonly attributed to acculturative changes. Longitudinal data to confirm this are lacking. We examined acculturation in relation to insulin resistance in a sample of Chinese immigrant women to determine differences by level of education and possible mediation by anthropometry and diet.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Design: </strong>Longitudinal study.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Setting</strong><em>: </em>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Participants: </strong>305 Chinese immigrant women recruited October 2005 to April 2008 and followed until April 2010.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Main Outcome Measures</strong><em>: </em>Association of acculturation, measured using the General Ethnicity Questionnaire – American version (GEQA), with homeostasis model assess­ment (HOMA) score as an indicator of insulin resistance, modeled using general­ized estimating equations to account for repeated measures over time.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Results: </strong>GEQA was associated with log HOMA score, but only in women with &lt;9 years of education (beta [SE] = .09 [.04], <em>P</em>=.02; interaction <em>P</em>=.02). The association persisted with adjustment for body mass index, waist circumference, and dietary variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings provide longitudinal evidence that insulin resistance increases with acculturation. However, the association was apparent only in less-edu­cated immigrants and may be mediated by a pathway other than changes in anthropom­etry and diet. <em>Ethn Dis. </em>2015;25(4):443-450; doi:10.18865/ed.25.4.443</p>

scholarly journals Elitist in Façade

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-157
Author(s):  
Hongxia Shan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women

Abstract Drawing on a qualitative study of a group of professional Chinese women navigating their career lives between China and Canada, this paper addresses how Chinese transnationalism is constituted within global capitalism. It starts by mapping the career lives of the Chinese immigrant women. Their experiences point to the emergence of a transnational field between Canada and China where skill/labor and capital conjoin in distinct ways. The study further shows that this transnational social field is comprised of a complex of social relations reticulated through multiple institutions, organizations, and actors. Although the interest of economic accumulation and Western-centric social and cultural orders are predominant in shaping the women’s career spaces, this transnational field also provides conduits for alternative flows of power, privileging the entrepreneurial quest for social, cultural, and economic capitals. Despite its elitist façade, the transnational field is itself also vulnerable, fractured, and prone to crisis.

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