Alien nation
Subtitle: Chinese migration in the Americas from the coolie era through World War II
By: Elliott Young
Series: The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history; David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781469612966
Subjects: Race relations; Chinese Foreign workers; Chinese; Community life; Immigrants; Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism; Ethnicity; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on language and terminology; title: Introduction: Aliens and the nation; title: Part 1. Coolies and contracts, 1847-1874; title: Contested sovereignties : coolies on the high seas; title: Contracting freedom; title: Part 2. Clandestine crossings and the production of illegal aliens, 1882-1900; title: The rights of man and of the citizen, 1882-1900; title: The immigration bureaucracy and the production of illegal aliens; title: Clandestine crossings to the United States; title: Part 3. Competing revolutionary nationalisms, 1900-1940; title: Revolutionary nationalism and xenophobia; title: Chinese diasporic networks; title: Epilogue.