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Author:

Young, Elliott, 1967-

Title:

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

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xvi, 360 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.
China--History.--History.
America--History.--History.
America--Race relations.
Chinese.
Community life.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnicity.
Foreign workers, Chinese.
Immigrants.
Race relations.
Transnationalism.
America.
China.
1800 - 1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 327-339) and index.

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.

Summary:

"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.

Series:

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

ISBN:

1469612968
9781469612966

OCLC:

(OCoLC)876012034

LCCN:

2014017584

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)