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title: "Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)"
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# Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)

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- **What is this?** Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by elliott young
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## Customer Reviews

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    A Great Look at Race and Borders
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016*

In Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II, Elliot Young writes, “Unlike the national map, which imagines itself as static and timeless, the diasporic migrant mapping I propose is always transient, shifting, and unstable.” This leads Young to use the framework of Greater North America rather than to focus on traditional borders in order to track the movements of people. Young develops a “hemispheric and global” frame, arguing, “From this hemispheric perspective, a web of Chinese migrant pathways comes into focus rather than a line from point A in China to point B in the Americas.” As for the validity of borders, Young’s example of United States and Canadian officials fighting to deport Chinese migrants to each other’s countries demonstrates how even border agents recognized that border law, complex as it was, was not up to the task at hand. Young writes, “The bodies of Chinese being pushed back and forth across the border suggests the liminal position of Chinese as aliens in the Americas. The issue was not where to deport the Chinese but who would be responsible for paying the cost of deporting them back to China.” For historians studying migration, this demonstrates the necessity of a multinational approach or, to take things a step further, the creation of an intellectual framework akin to that Young developed.

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    Used for my senior seminar paper because it was recommended by Dr
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2014*

Used for my senior seminar paper because it was recommended by Dr. Maffitt ,who is a close friend to Dr. Young. Great!!!!! I got a lot of information from this book.

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    America is a land of immigrants
  

*by J***G on Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2016*

A timely and informative book that is a well documented work that should have lessons for understanding the situation of all immigrant groups.

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