ABSTRACT
The recent arrival of Asian immigrants and the emergence of their adaptive strategies in the 1990s is a phenomenon without precedent. The sheer number of Asian newcomers, their cultural similarities and differences, the paths for adjustment and the coping mechanisms chosen as a means to resolve cultural conflicts are most instructive; but also their socioeconomic mobility, their educational attainment, and most of all, the folk stereotypic explanations of their success are characteristics which distinguish Asian immigrants in the last two decades of this century and mark important trends for the twenty-first century. The circumstances of these historical phenomena are intriguing and their theoretical implications are significant.
