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In his neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, Xiang Wang ’12 watches as the lifeblood of the Chinese immigrant community is drained away. Some of these immigrants, out of a desire to “get rich quick,” have turned to gambling. These parents spend much of their time at casinos instead of getting jobs and funding their children’s education. Advised by Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology Christopher Vasantkumar, Wang was awarded an Emerson grant to further explore the causes and effects of this detrimental trend.

Chinese-Americans are stereotyped as extremely hardworking in the United States. But the life of an immigrant is a very lonely one, especially if the immigrant is a “trailblazer,” or the first of his or her family to arrive in the U.S. Solitude, p Read more…