ALIEN NATION: CHINESE MIGRATION IN THE AMERICAS, 1840S-1940S
Book ID/图书代码： 13014013B66336
English Summary/英文概要： • First transnational history of Chinese migration in the Americas
• Examines the development of "illegal alien" status as a response to Chinese migration
• Focuses on immigrants’ creation of alternative Chinese communities within the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Peru
• First book about Chinese migration to link the nineteenth century “coolie” era to the later period of modern “free migration”
The need for manual labor in the Americas in the 19th century brought hundreds of migrant workers from China. From building railroads in California to harvesting sugarcane in Cuba, the labor of Chinese workers helped create nations. However, the governments, media, and citizens of the Americas saw Chinese laborers as racially and culturally alien. Chinese
immigrant workers were therefore seen and governed as perpetual outsiders, and their presence encouraged the passage of restrictive immigration laws.
Elliott Young’s ALIEN NATION is the first multinational history of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s and ending at the outset of World War II. Young argues that
the arrival of Chinese immigrants to the Americas, principally the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Peru, prompted nations to develop the concept of the “alien." Viewed as permanent foreigners, the Chinese were the first group of immigrants to be stigmatized as aliens, and they were the “model aliens” for whom nations created immigration bureaucracies. By embracing an international perspective and exposing the clandestine nature of migration during this period,
Young argues that Chinese immigration did not occur in a single line from one place to another, but in a multinational web of legal and illegal border crossings. Furthermore, there were strong
connections between Chinese across the Americas, and ALIEN NATION shows how Chinese migrants constructed an alternative community through these transnational pathways that
permeated the Americas.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： • 第一部讲述中国移民在美洲历史的书籍
• 探讨了“非法移民”的发展现状，并以此作为对中国移民的回应
• 重点描述了中国移民在美国、加拿大、墨西哥、古巴和秘鲁建立的中国社区
• 第一部描述中国移民从19世纪的“苦力”年代发展到后现代的“自由移民”的艰辛历程
19世纪的美洲存在大量的劳力需求，于是几百中国工人被带往美洲。从修建加利福尼亚洲的铁路到在古巴收割甘蔗，中国移民帮助建立了美洲。但是，美洲的政府，媒体和市民仍旧歧视着中国移民。他们始终被当做永久的异国人，而他们的存在最终促成了限制性移民法的通过。
艾略特.杨的《异国人》是第一部描写中国移民迁往美洲的跨国历史，始于1840年，终于二战开端。杨认为中国移民来到美洲，最主要是美国、加拿大、墨西哥、古巴和秘鲁等国加深了各国人民对“异国人”的概念，而中国移民也是第一批被当做异国人看待的移民，他们为往后移民国家建立移民机构建立了模板。以国际的视角探索了这段黑暗的时间，杨认为中国移民并不只是单纯地从一个地方迁往另一个地方，他们的存在也是在非法和合法之间的。但是中国移民和美洲之间有很大的联系，《异国人》描述了中国移民是如何渗透至美洲的艰辛历程。（XAT）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾略特.杨（1997年毕业于美国德州大学奥斯汀分校，博士学位）是克拉克学院历史副教授。他的第一部著作《得克萨斯州与墨西哥境的卡塔里诺.加尔萨革命》由杜克大学出版社于2004年出版并屡获殊荣。Elliott Young(Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1997) is associate professor of history at Lewis and Clark College. His first book, CATARINO GARZA’S REVOLUTION ON THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER was published by Duke University Press (2004) and received multiple awards.
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