Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2013
Publisher
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender / College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville
Abstract
Through in-depth interviews with Chinese working-class immigrant women, this study highlights the meanings of their Chinatown community and adjustment to U.S. life. By adopting a phcnomenological approach, three themes based on the trope of the American Dream emerged that illustrated these women's experiences with compounded immobilities, structural injustice, and racial antagonisms. Nonethless, the interviews evidence resilience in the theme of a "wobbly bed" with implications for national immigration policies and intercultural communication models.
Recommended Citation
Cheng, H.-I. (2013). “A wobbly bed still stands on three legs”: On Chinese immigrant women’s experiences with ethnic community. Women & Language, 36 (1), 7-25.
Comments
Copyright © 2013 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender / College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville. Reprinted with permission.