Research Areas

  • Migration and Development

     

    • The Chinese Diaspora

    • Southeast Asian refugee flows

    • Intra-Asian migrations

    • Transnationalism and hometown development

    • Labor market incorporation in host societies

    • Immigrant entrepreneurship

    • The new second generation

  • Education

     

    • Education of immigrant and refugee children

    • The ethnic systems of supplementary education

  • Asian America

     

    • Asian American youth

    • Asian American stereotypes

    • Immigrant /emigrant / transnational communities

      • Ethnic enclaves and ethnic 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

Image: Dr. Min Zhou at her UCLA office

Courses Taught

  • Asian Community: Border-Crossing
  • Diasporic Formation
  • Social Transformation in the Asian World
  • Interracial Dynamics
  • Chinese Immigration
  • Contemporary Asian American Communities
  • ​Asian American Youth
  • ​The Sociology of Los Angeles
  • ​Theories of Ethnicity​
  • ​Immigration and the New Second Generation
  • ​Immigration and Ethnic Entrepreneurship
  • ​Introductory Sociology
  • ​Human Societies
  • ​Minority Peoples in the United States
  • ​The Community
  • ​Methods of Social Research
  • ​Urban Sociology