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Leon Azofeifa, Moises Guillermo.

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Chinese immigrants on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica: The economic adaptation of an Asian minority in a pluralistic society.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Chinese immigrants on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica: The economic adaptation of an Asian minority in a pluralistic society./
Author:	Leon Azofeifa, Moises Guillermo.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1987,
Description:	440 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: A, page: 1555.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International49-06A.
Subject:	Latin American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8817293

Chinese immigrants on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica: The economic adaptation of an Asian minority in a pluralistic society.
Leon Azofeifa, Moises Guillermo.

Chinese immigrants on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica: The economic adaptation of an Asian minority in a pluralistic society. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1987 - 440 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: A, page: 1555.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tulane University, 1987.

This study documents the history of Chinese immigrants who settled on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Despite strongly racist sentiments against Asians and other immigrants, the Chinese adapted successfully on the Coast, in large measure, due to the fact that they retained basic aspects of their cultural identity, expressed through a number of institutions which were essential to their successful adaptation. Based on a pragmatism that allowed them to exploit to the maximum extent those opportunities available to them, the Chinese community structured the provision of logistic, social and economic support to its members, through family organizations, credit unions, and the elders' council. The Chinese associations were a social response designed to meet those needs not met by the family associations, particularly with respect to defending the community's interests and reinforcing group identity.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122902
Latin American history.

Chinese immigrants on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica: The economic adaptation of an Asian minority in a pluralistic society.
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520 $a The arrival in large numbers of Taiwanese immigrants, though troublesome to the Mainlanders, has elicited some solidary responses from the latter, in what may be a repetition of previous events in the history of Chinese immigration in Costa Rica.
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