Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Week 6 - National Policy and Migration Flow: The Example of Trans-Pacific Chinese Migration

How did immigration restriction affect an existing set of migration networks? What was the role of nationalism in creating border restrictions? Now that nation-states have taken on border control, what factors shape who is encouraged and discouraged to migrate? How do settler histories displace and erase other peoples and other histories?


Erika Lee, “Enforcing the Borders; Chinese Exclusion along the Border with Canada and Mexico, 1882-1924” Journal of American History 89, no. 1 (June 2002)

Adam McKeown, "Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China,” American Historical Review, 108, no. 2 (2003)

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