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Dowries and Debts: Fuzhounese Youth Geographies of Fear, Resentment, and Obligation

Hung, Winnie Tam

Journal of Asian American studies, 2015, Vol.18 (1), p.11-40 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Dowries and Debts: Fuzhounese Youth Geographies of Fear, Resentment, and Obligation
Author: Hung, Winnie Tam
Subjects: United States xEmigration and immigration ; Chinese American youth ; New York ; Emigration and immigration ; Chinese American families ; China ; New York (State) ; Economic aspects ; Economic conditions ; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) ; Negotiation ; Aliens ; Migration ; Families ; Upward mobility ; Neoliberalism ; Restaurants ; Middle class ; Casinos ; Education ; Chinese ; Asian Americans ; Children
Is Part Of: Journal of Asian American studies, 2015, Vol.18 (1), p.11-40
Description: Chinese family networks are often lauded as the source of Chinese American success in education, and used as a bolstering tool to propagate myths of the model minority. This study of Fuzhounese youth, however, reveals that many Chinese American youth view getting married and having children as more important than educational status for establishing place and face in the US. Against the backdrop of growing privatization of the nation's economy and its emphasis on personal responsibility and worker flexibility,the author's analysis of the effects of familial obligations as a national and transnational debt complicates caricatures of Asian American families as the model minority. By calling attention to the negotiations that Fuzhounese youth make in order to forge economic relationships that take into consideration familial expectations, this article underscores the ways in which filial piety and obligations shape the marriage and educational aspirations of Fuzhounese youth.
Publisher: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1097-2129
ISSN: 1096-8598
EISSN: 1096-8598
DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2015.0004

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Dowries and Debts: Fuzhounese Youth Geographies of Fear, Resentment, and Obligation

Hung, Winnie Tam

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