Chinese Garment Workers after 9/11

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The presentation is based on the author’s manuscript, Sewing Woman, and her project: The effects of the 9/11 tragedy on the Chinese garment workers and the Chinatown neighborhood.

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Author Bio

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Margaret M. Chin joined the Sociology Department at Hunter College/CUNY in September 2001, and is the author of Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry (Columbia University Press, 2005).

Professor Chin’s research interests focus on new immigrants, working poor families, race and ethnicity, and Asian Americans. Her current research projects include a book manuscript on how Asian ethnic media is used by first and second generation Asians and Asian Americans; a comparative chapter on differences and similarities among Brooklyn’s Chinatown, Flushing’s Asiantown and Manhattan’s Chinatown; and a paper how young student parents balance parenting and school.

Professor Chin was a Social Science Research Council Post Doctoral Fellow in International Migration, a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Junior Faculty Career Grant Recipient and a Gender Equity Project Associate. She has taught The Sociology of the Family, The Second Generation Experience of Asians, Latinos and Blacks, the Graduate Social Research course in qualitative research methods, and a CUNY Honors College Seminar – The Peopling of New York.

Professor Chin received her BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and her MA and PhD in Sociology from Columbia University.