Alien Nation : Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II /

"Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the 'coolie' trade and ending during World War II. This book is the first transnational history of Chinese migration to the Americas. By focusing on the fluidity and comple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Young, Elliott, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social sciences.
Chinese.
Community life.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnicity.
Foreign workers, Chinese.
Immigrants.
Race relations.
Transnationalism.
HISTORY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Chinois > Amerique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Chinois > Amerique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Travailleurs etrangers chinois > Amerique > Histoire.
Transnationalisme > Histoire.
Communaute > Amerique > Histoire.
Ethnicite > Amerique > Histoire.
Chinese > America > History > 19th century.
Chinese > America > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > America > History.
Foreign workers, Chinese > America > History.
Transnationalism > History.
Community life > America > History.
Ethnicity > America > History.
America.
China.
Amerique > Relations raciales.
China > Emigration and immigration > History.
America > Emigration and immigration > History.
America > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Note on language and terminology
  • Introduction: Aliens and the nation
  • Part 1. Coolies and contracts, 1847-1874
  • Contested sovereignties : coolies on the high seas
  • Contracting freedom
  • Part 2. Clandestine crossings and the production of illegal aliens, 1882-1900
  • The rights of man and of the citizen, 1882-1900
  • The immigration bureaucracy and the production of illegal aliens
  • Clandestine crossings to the United States
  • Part 3. Competing revolutionary nationalisms, 1900-1940
  • Revolutionary nationalism and xenophobia
  • Chinese diasporic networks
  • Epilogue.

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