SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF NEW CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN VANCOUVER.

Influenced by the ideas of Buddhist fatalism, old Chinese immigrants in Canada often used avoidance as their adaptive strategy in the face of discrimination from and conflict with the mainstream society. Only when confronted with serious threats did they unite themselves for a concerted action. Since the 1990s, new Chinese immigrants in Canada have changed tremendously; it must be interesting to see how the new Chinese immigrants adapt to the new situation and whether they still experience discrimination. This article studies new Chinese immigrants in the city of Vancouver. The research questions of this study are: How are they now related to the mainstream society? How are they integrated with it? And what are the main conflicts and how do they cope with them? The paper deals with their relationships in three main aspects: the new mode of concentration, new forms of conflicts, and the lived experience of Chinese entrepreneurs and their coping strategies. The paper concludes that while new Chinese immigrants enjoy a much higher social status in comparison with their predecessors, they never forget the past oppression and that some regulations in the current policy smacks of unfairness. The research is based on secondary data, but provides recent demographics of new Chinese immigrants in the city. In the paper, the term "new Chinese immigrants" refer to those who entered Canada after the year 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]