Week 7 - A Transnational Story?

Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000

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)

David Ley, "Between Europe and Asia: The Case of the Missing Sequoias," Ecumene 2(2) 1995: 185-210.

David Ley, "Seeking Homo Economicus: The Strange Story of Canada's Business Immigration Program," RIIM Working Paper #00-02, May 2000.

Week 5 - Intimate Lives

Ann Laura Stoler “Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies” Journal of American History 88, no. 3 (2001)

Dirk Hoerder, "How the Intimate Lives of Subaltern Men, Women and Children Confound the Nation's Narratives, Journal of American History 88, no. 3 (2001)

Week 4 - Conceptualizing Migration

How and why do people migrate? How do the people who move conceive of their movements? What is the role of family networks in migration? How does migration look different when we take sex and intimacy into account? How do we recover migration history as understood from "below" and in ways "hidden" from official sources?

Donna R. Gabaccia, "Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of United States History," Journal of American History 86, no. 3

Adam McKeown, "Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842-1949," Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 52, no8 (May 1999):306-337

H-Net Book Review of Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millenium (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002)

Week 3 - Immigrants or Trans-Migrants?

From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration, Nina Glick Schiller; Linda Basch; Cristina Szanton Blanc, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1. (Jan., 1995), pp. 48-63.

Takeyuki Tsuda, “Migration and Alienation: Japanese- Brazilian Return Migrants and the Search for Home Abroad,” unpublished excerpt from book

David Ley and Audrey Kobayashi, “Back to Hong Kong, “Return Migration or Transnational Sojourn,” unpublished paper

Week 2 - Transnationalism

Is there a difference between "migration" and "immigration"? How has the history of "nationalism" shaped "immigration" studies? What do we gain in escaping national paradigms of immigration? What do we lose?

Andreas Wimmer, Nina Glick Schiller, "Methodological Nationalism:"

Eva Morawska, "Disciplinary Agendas and Analytic Strategies" in "Transnational Migration: International Perspectives,"

Alejandro Portes, "Theoretical Convergences and Empirical Evidence in Immigrant
Transnationalism" All in edited Peggy Levitt, Josh DeWind, Steven Vertovec, International Migration Review vol. 37, no. 3, Fall 2003;

The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism, M. Kearney, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24. (1995), pp. 547-565.