Min Zhou, Ph.D.

Areas of Research

• Immigration and Immigrant Adaptation
  • The Chinese Diaspora
  • Southeast Asian refugee flows
  • Intra-Asian migration
  • Labor market incorporation
  • Employment and earnings patterns
  • Entrepreneurship
  • The new second generation in the United States
    • Intergenerational social mobility
    • Intergenerational relations

• Education
  • Education of immigrant and refugee children
  • The ethnic systems of supplementary education
  • After-school programs

• Asian America
  • Asian American youth culture
  • Immigrant /emigrant / transnational communities
    • Enclave economies
    • Ethnic language media
    • Ethnic language schools
    • Ethnic organizations

• Race and Ethnicity
  • Inter-group disparities
  • Intra-group diversity
  • Interethnic / interracial relations

• Urban Sociology
  • Urban change impacted by internal and international migrations
  • Urban and suburban immigrant neighborhoods
  • Residential mobility
  • Internal migration in China