Brokering belonging
Subtitle: Chinese in Canada's exclusion era, 1885-1945
By: Lisa Rose Mar.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780199733132; 9780199733149
Subjects: Chinese -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 19th century; Chinese -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History; Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada -- History; Emigration and immigration law -- Canada -- History; Chinese -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Politics and government; Brokers -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History; Civic leaders -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History; Community life -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History; Vancouver (B.C.) -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. Before World War II, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Lisa Rose Mar's study of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. Drawing on new Chinese language evidence, her dramatic account of political power struggles over representing Chinese Canadians offers a transnational immigrant view of history, centered in a Pacific World that joins Canada, the United States, China, and the British Empire."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Negotiating protection : illegal immigration and party machines; title: Arguing cases : legal interpreters, law, and society; title: Popularizing politics : the anti-segregation movement as social revolution; title: Fixing knowledge : Pacific Coast Chinese leaders' management of the Chicago School of Sociology; title: Transforming democracy : brokerage politics and the exclusion era's denouement; title: Conclusions.