Profile of Boston's Chinatown Neighborhood (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Profile of Boston's Chinatown NeighborhoodChinatown is a small neighborhood, the boundaries of which do not conform to any geographic units in available data bases. The closest approximation is a compilation of blocks within census tracts defined by the u.s. Bureau of the Census. See shaded area in Figure 1. In those blocks, the population in 1980 was Eighty percent of those persons were Asian and Pacific Islander. The population in those blocks more than doubled from 1970 to 1980. See Table 1. The influx was led by Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants, largely due to the United States' recognition of China and the admission of Indo - Chinese refugees beginning in 1978. Note that the actual population in Chinatown may have been greater than the Bureau of the Census reported, due to reluctance of some immigrants to respond to a government - sponsored survey. However, the suspected undercount has not been documented or estimated.For more detailed information on the inhabitants of Chinatown, an entire census tract-number 702 - provides a reasonable approximation of Chinatown. See the area within the heavy lines in Figure 1. The data for tract 702 indicate that population and housing grew rapidly in the l97os, contrary to the citywide trend. Yet most of the characteristics of the residents did not change significantly. Relative improvements in family income and poverty rates were the notable exception.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.