title: At the threshold of the Golden Gate: special problems of a neglected minority.
abstract: The residents of San Francisco's Chinatown demonstrate the consequences of a substantial number of economic and social ills reflecting the history of the Chinese-Americans and the orientation of American society towards them. Changes in the immigration laws have presented particularly stressful circumstances for the traditional Chinese-American family. The relationship of such social stresses to the incidence and form of psychopathology--including an unusually high incidence of suicide--is noted.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003441:Crowding; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005190:Family; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008913:Minority Groups; D011203:Poverty; D011287:Prejudice; D012924:Social Conditions; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology