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[[Image:San Francisco Chinatown.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chinatown in San Francisco]]

This article discusses '''Chinatown patterns in North America'''. For the purposes of this article [[North America]] is defined as [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]. For a broad survey of individual Chinatowns in the region, see [[Chinatowns in North America]].  For information on [[Chinatown]]s in [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]], please refer to [[Chinatowns in Latin Americ(contracted; show full)]], [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], and [[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver]], thus giving those cities historic and bustling old Chinatowns that still stand today and essentially serving as anchors for another wave of ethnic Chinese immigration.  In the early years of settlement, many of the old urban Chinatowns were involuntarily settled by Chinese immigrants due to de jure (i.e., codified by law) segregationist policies by several municipalities,
 and states, and provinces..{{cite}}<!--will someone please cite these specific laws, and which Chinatowns were thereby created?  removed "provinces" as these statutes did not exist in Canada; not in BC, anyway-->

The suburban Chinatowns were generally established in the 1970s, and were the result of three factors: The relaxation of Chinese immigration restrictions (the [[Chinese Exclusion Act]]s previously enacted in 1882 in the United States and in 1923 in Canada), the passage of laws that forbade racial discrimination in [[real estate]], and improved relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China in "[[ping-pong diplomacy]]."  

(contracted; show full)|Los Angeles, Houston, Oakland, Toronto
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Sources: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Citizenship and Immigration Canada

[[Category:Chinatowns]]
[[Category:Chinese American history]]