Alien Nation Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II 1st Edition by Elliott Young ISBN 978-1469612966 1469612966

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ISBN 10:  1469612966

ISBN 13: 978-1469612966

Author: Elliott Young

In this sweeping work, Elliott 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. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing railroads in California to harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Though nations were built in part from their labor, Young argues that they were the first group of migrants to bear the stigma of being “alien.” Being neither black nor white and existing outside of the nineteenth century Western norms of sexuality and gender, the Chinese were viewed as permanent outsiders, culturally and legally. It was their presence that hastened the creation of immigration bureaucracies charged with capture, imprisonment, and deportation.

Table of contents: 

Part 1. Coolies and Contracts 

Part 2. Clandestine Crossings and the Production of Illegal Aliens

Part 3. Competing Revolutionary Nationalisms 

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