Alien nation : Chinese migration in the Americas from the coolie era through World War II / Elliott Young.

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Young, Elliott, 1967- [author.]

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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History Supplement.Publisher: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 360 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781469612973
1469612976
9781469613406
1469613409

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alien nation.DDC classification:

304.8/951073 23

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E29.C5 Y68 2014eb

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Contents:

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.

Scope and content: "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 complexity of border crossings throughout the Western Hemisphere, Young shows us how Chinese migrants constructed alternative communities and identities through these transnational pathways"--Provided by publisher.

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"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 complexity of border crossings throughout the Western Hemisphere, Young shows us how Chinese migrants constructed alternative communities and identities through these transnational pathways"--Provided by publisher.

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