Between the early nineteenth century and the 1930s, more than
ten million Chinese workers were shipped abroad to the European
outposts and colonies of the tropical world. This great wave of
Chinese mobility drew to a halt in the early 1950s after the
midcentury years of war and revolution. However, since 1978, when
China s reform policy lifted the ban on migration, Chinese subjects
from the People s Republic have been on the move again. This time,
the movement has been directed largely toward Europe and the
Western world itself.
This volume of essays by Li Minghuan, an early new
migrant-scholar herself, documents the extraordinary story of
Chinese transnational migration. The book represents over two
decades of untiring empirical field research, going where the
migrants go the Netherlands, France, Canada and where they come
from Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Mingxi in Fujian in order to observe, and
to listen, with an unwaveringly sympathetic eye and ear, to what
they, their families, their neighbours, their brokers, and their
local officials have to say. Coupled with the historian s craft of
painstaking archival research, these village and community case
studies not only cover an astounding geographical orbit of sending
and receiving areas, but also a broad diversity and range of
migrant types and situations both historical and contemporary, from
illegal and refugee migration, to official labor export, to the
migration of students and professionals."
General
Imprint: |
Leuven University Press
|
Country of origin: |
Belgium |
Release date: |
September 2013 |
First published: |
2014 |
Authors: |
Li Minghuan
|
Dimensions: |
239 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
328 |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-5867-901-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
90-5867-901-2 |
Barcode: |
9789058679017 |
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