Degrees

Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany

Publications

Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (Temple University Press, 1992).

“Growing Up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants,” Annual Review of Sociology 23: 63-95, 1997.

“Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation,” International Migration Review 31 (4): 825-858, 1997.

Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (with Bankston, Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).

“‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California: The Educational Experience of Chinese Children in Transnational Families,” Educational Policy 12 (6): 682-704, 1998.

“Rebuilding Spiritual Lives in the New Land: Religious Practices among Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States,” pp. 37-70 in Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim (eds.), Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. Walnut Creek, Ca.: AltaMira Press, 2002 (with Bankston and Kim).

“A Tale of Two Metropolises: Immigrant Chinese Communities in New York and Los Angeles,” pp. 124-149 in David Halle, ed., Los Angeles and New York in the New Millennium, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 (with Kim).

“Ethnic Language Schools and the Development of Supplementary Education in the Immigrant Chinese Community in the United States,” New Directions for Youth Development: Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth (Winter): 57-73, 2003 (with Li).

Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2004 (eds. with J. Lee).

“Are Asian Americans Becoming White?” Contexts 3 (1): 29-37, 2004.

“The Multifaceted American Experience of the Children of Asian Immigrants: Lessons for Segmented Assimilation,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 28 (6): 1119-1152, 2005 (with Xiong).

“Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement: The Case of Supplementary Education in the Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities,” Harvard Educational Review 76 (1): 1-29, 2006 (with Kim).

“The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education: Non-profit and Forprofit Institutions in Los Angeles’ Chinese Immigrant Community,” pp. 229-251 in Beth Shinn and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, eds., Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied: Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility among the New Second Generation in Los Angeles.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 620: 37-61, 2008 (with Lee, Agius Vallejo, Tafoya-Estrada, and Xiong).

“Rethinking Residential Assimilation through the Case of Chinese Ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, California.” Amerasia Journal 34 (3): 55-83, 2008 (with Tseng and Kim).
Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (Temple University Press, 2009).

“How Neighborhoods Matter for Immigrant Children: The Formation of Educational Resources in Chinatown, Koreatown, and Pico Union, Los Angeles.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35 (7): 1153-1179, 2009.

“Noneconomic Effects of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Chinatown and Koreatown in Los Angeles, USA.”  Thunderbird International Business Review 52 (2) 83-96, 2010 (with Cho).

The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2011.

“Transnationalism and Development: Mexican and Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States.” Population and Development Review 38 (2): 191-220, 2012 (with Portes)

“Transnationalism and Community Building: Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647: 22-49, 2013 (with R. Lee).

“The Success Frame and Achievement Paradox: The Costs and Consequences for Asian Americans.” Race and Social Problems 6 (1): 38-55, 2014 (with Lee).

“Intra-Diaspora Dynamics in Generational Formation: The Case of Chinese America.” Diaspora 18 (1-2): 89-116, 2015.

“Transnational Entrepreneurship and Immigrant Integration: New Chinese Immigrants in Singapore and the United States.” Research in the Sociology of Work 27: 69-201, 2015 (with Liu)

Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Third edition. New York: New York University Press, 2016 (eds. with Ocampo).

“Cross-Space Consumption: Grassroots Transnationalism among Undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the United States.” Sociology of Development 2 (2): 158-182, 2016 (with Li).

“Homeland Engagement and Host-Society Integration: A Comparative Study of New Chinese Immigrants in the United States and Singapore.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 57 (1-2): 30-52, 2016 (with Liu).

“Encountering Strangers in an Emerging Global City: Chinese Attitudes toward African Migrants in Guangzhou, China.” The International Journal of Sociology 46 (2): 141-161, 2016 (with Shenasi and Xu).

“Entrepreneurship and Interracial Dynamics: A Case Study of Self-Employed Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou, China.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (9): 1566-1586, 2016 (with Xu and Shenasi).

“Rejoinder: Unraveling the Link between Culture and Achievement.” Symposium on The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015). Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (13): 2404-241, 2016 (with Lee).

“Hyper-Selectivity and the Remaking of Culture: Understanding the Asian American Achievement Paradox.” Asian American Journal of Psychology 8 (1): 7-15, 2017 (with Lee).

Contemporary Chinese Diasporas. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (435 pp.).

“Remittances for Collective Consumption and Social Status Compensation: Variations on Transnational Practices among Chinese Migrants.” International Migration Review 52(1):4-42, 2018 (with Li).

Zhou, Min and Roberto Gonzales. 2019. “Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing up in America.” Annual Review of Sociology 45:383-99. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-soc-073018-022424

Zhou, Min and Jun Wang. 2019. “Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Children’s Education: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Immigrant Parenting in the United States and Singapore.” Genealogy 3(20). https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3020020

Zhan, Shaohua and Min Zhou. 2020. “Precarious Talent: Highly Skilled Chinese and Indian Immigrants in Singapore.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(9): 1654-1672. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1648847

Lee, Jennifer and Min Zhou. 2020. “The Reigning Misperception about Culture and Asian American Achievement.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 13 (3): 508-515. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1678760

Zhan, Shaohua, Rajiv George Aricat, and Min Zhou. 2020. “New Dynamics of Multinational Migration: Chinese and Indian Migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles” Geographical Research 58 (4): 365-376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12397

Bankston, Carl L. and Min Zhou. 2021. “Involuntary Migration, Context of Reception, and Social Mobility: The Case of Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement in the United States.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47 (21): 4797-4816 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1724411

Wang, Bing and Min Zhou. 2021. “Understanding Intraethnic Diversity: The Formation of a Taiwanese American Identity.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 17(1): 58-83. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341434

Zhou, Min. 2021. “Family, Gender, Ethnicity, and Pragmatism in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship: An Introduction to the Special Issue.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 17 (2): 1-8. https://brill.com/view/journals/jco/17/2/article-p225_1.xml

You, Tianlong and Min Zhou. 2021. “Gender and Transnational Dynamics in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chinese-Owned Nail Salons in New York City, USA.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 17 (2): 239-264. https://brill.com/view/journals/jco/17/2/article-p239_2.xml

Zhou, Min and Ashelee Yue Yang. 2022. “Divergent Experiences and Patterns of Integration: Contemporary Chinese Immigrants in Metropolitan Los Angeles, USA.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(4): 913-932 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1983954

Lin, Howard Xiaohua and Min Zhou. 2022. “Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Globalized World: Place, Space, and Mobilities” (introduction to a special issue). Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship 34 (4): 357-362 https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2021.1999106

Zhan, Shaohua, Lingli Huang, Min Zhou. 2022. “Differentiation from above and below: Evolving Immigration Policy and the Integration Dilemma in Singapore.” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(1): 3-25 https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968221083703

Zhou, Min and Nicholas V. DiRago. 2023. “The Trajectory of the Color Line in a US Immigrant Gateway: Hyperdiverse Spatialization in Los Angeles.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 46(11): 2474-2501 https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2168498

Zhou, Min and Hasan Mahmud (eds.). 2023. Beyond Economic Migration: Historical, Social, and Political Factors in US Immigration. New York: New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479818556/beyond-economic-migration/

Awards & Grants

Awards

Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave. Honorable Mention of the 1993 Robert E. Park Award, Community of Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (with Bankston). Winner of the 1999 Thomas and Znaniecki Award, International Migration Section of the ASA; Winner of 2000 Best Book Award, the Mid-South Sociological Association

Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (with Lee). Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Book Award, Asia and Asian America Section, American Sociological Association

Recipient of the 2007 Chiyoko Doris’34 & Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies, UCLA

The Asian American Achievement Paradox (2015, co-authored with Jennifer Lee)

• Winner of the 2016 Book Award on Asian America, Section on Asia and Asian America of the American Sociological Association
• Winner of the 2016 Thomas and Znaniecki Award, Section on International Migration of the American Sociological Association
• Winner of the 2016 Pierre Bourdieu Outstanding Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association
• Winner of the 2017 Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies
• Recipient of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association

Recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Career Award, Section on International Migration of the American Sociological Association

Grants

Co-PI (with Lee), “Becoming “Ethnic,” Becoming ‘Angelino,’ and/or Becoming ‘American’: The Multi-Faceted Experiences of Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants in Los Angeles,” Russell Sage Foundation, $220,000, 2005-08

Co-PI (with Lee), “Los Angeles’ Second Generation: Mobility, Identity, and the Making of a New American Metropolis,” Russell Sage Foundation, $108,088, 2008-09

PI, “International Migration: Breaking New Grounds for Research”, College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SG$147,500, 2013-16

PI, “International Symposium on Formation and Development of New Chinese Diasporas: A Transnational, Cross-regional, and Interdisciplinary Comparative Study,” Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, $25,000, 2015-16

Co-PI (with Gupta), “Entrepreneurship in a Global Era,” UCLA International Institute Cross-Center Collaborative Grant, $7,500, 2017-18

Co-PI (with Zhan and Ling), “Immigration, Integration, and Social Transformation in the Pacific Rim,” Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE) Academic Research Council Tier 2 research grant, SG$611,603, 2016-2021