For instance, the Hmong people, fleeing Laos, settled in unlikely places such as Fresno, Wausau, and St. But strict immigration limits and racist attitudes and practices in the West through much of the 20th Century kept those neighborhoods and their residents walled off, and Chinatowns, Koreatowns, and Japantowns in major cities ossified, with some dying out and others turning into tourist-driven imitations of community - unlike what happened in other newcomer districts, where assimilation led to generational turnover and whole new neighborhoods arose (like Harlem or Brooklyn).īut since the 1980s, as two-way trade with East Asia boomed, the doors to mainland China opened, and a new migrant wave arrived, it wasn’t just the traditional big cities like Vancouver or San Francisco that saw change it was midsize and even small towns across North America.
Old, established ethnic neighborhoods created in the 19th Century diaspora from Asia served a purpose for first-generation migrants: a ready-made support group of jobs, housing, finance, and community.
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