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The Diplomacy of migration : transnational lives and the making of U.S.-Chinese relations in the Cold War /

During the Cold War, both Chinese and American officials employed a wide range of migration policies and practices to pursue legitimacy, security, and prestige. They focused on allowing or restricting immigration, assigning refugee status, facilitating student exchanges, and enforcing deportations....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oyen, Meredith, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Colección:United States in the world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the floating population and foreign policy
  • Unequal allies : renegotiating exclusions
  • The diaspora goes to war : human capital and China's defense
  • A fight on all fronts : the Chinese civil war, restored migration, and emigration as national policy
  • Chinese migrants as cold warriors : immigration and deportation in the 1950s
  • Remitting to the enemy : transnational family finances and foreign policy
  • Crossing the bamboo curtain : using refugee policy to support free China
  • Cold War hostages : repatriation policy and the Sino-American ambassadorial talks
  • Visa diplomacy : the Taiwan independence movement and changing U.S.-Chinese relations
  • Conclusion : coming in from the cold.