RUI: China International Migration Project

本研究将调查最近，通常是秘密进入美国的中国移民。它结合了对纽约新移民的采访，以及对福建省六个社区移民区中国家庭的系统抽样。除了有关家庭社会经济地位的基本数据外，访谈还将收集有关接触移民中介网络的信息。对于来自福建这样的长途移民来说，这些网络应该是至关重要的，尤其是在移民流量增加的情况下。有关汇款和社区库存的家庭数据将用于评估移民对福建派遣社区商业发展的影响。

This research will investigate recent, often clandestine, Chinese immigration into the United States. It combines interviews with recent immigrants in New York with a systematic sample of Chinese households from six community sending areas in Fujian province. Besides basic data on socioeconomic status of the households, the interviews will collect information on exposure to networks of migration agents. For long distance immigration such as from Fujian, these networks should be crucial, especially as the migration flows increase. Household data on remittances and community inventories will be used to evaluate the impact of the migration on business development in the sending communities in Fujian.