Migration, Exclusion, and Strategies of Resistance -- The Period of the Manila Galleon: Chinese and Spaniards in the Philippines -- Forced Migration and Voluntary Migration in the Modern Age -- Free Migration of Chinese to the United States -- Inter-American Entanglements: Spreading Xenophobia?
Summary:
"This study takes an Inter-American and transpacific look at historical processes of discrimination and exclusion of migrants in the Americas and in the Spanish colonial Philippines that were based on racist and xenophobic prejudices. It will focus on pertinent migration policies and conjunctures of negotiation in various societies of the Americas while highlighting discriminatory dynamics in their diachronic dimension. Because Chinese immigrants were the first to experience these exclusionary practices and policies, the focus will be on this group in particular, keeping in mind that these dynamics affected other groups as well. By highlighting the correlation between mobility, liberalism, and ethnicity or ethnic adscription, the aim is to get a better understanding of the conjunctures of discrimination that immigrants who are considered 'non-white' suffered and continue to suffer from today in what we might term the Asian century"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Inter-American studies : cultures, societies, history ; volume 32
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.