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Emigration, Immigration & Migration
A guide to library and online sources with a special focus on U.S. immigration
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China Emigration and Immigration
Chinese Foreign Countries
Chinese Diaspora
Chinese United States
Chinese Americans History
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Chinese Overseas: Migration, Research and Documentation by Call Number: DS732 .I5645 2007An overview of sources with extensive bibliographies.
Chinese World Diaspora
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Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora by Call Number: DS732 .R68 2013
The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas by Call Number: DS732 .E53 1998
The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity by Call Number: DS732 .C5563 2003
Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora by Call Number: DS732 .D45 2003
Chinatowns Around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora by Call Number: E-BookPublication Date: 2013
Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese by Call Number: E184.C5 H54 1993
The Chinese in Europe by Call Number: D1056.2.C55 C48 1998
The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific by Call Number: DU28.1.C5 C45 2008
Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China by Call Number: DS732 .P47 2012
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Call Number: DT16.C48 F74 2014
Chinese America
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Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community by Call Number: E184.C5 K88 2005
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture by Call Number: E184.C5 C4795 2008Available in print and as an e-book
Chinese on the American Frontier by Call Number: E184.C5 C496 2001
American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods by Call Number: E184.C5 T834 2009
Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions by Call Number: E184.C5 L355 2004
Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American by Call Number: E184 .C5 C466 2002
Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community by Call Number: E184.C5 Z474 2009Available in print and as an e-book
Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present by Call Number: E184.C5 C479 2006
Chinese Heart of Texas: the San Antonio Community, 1875 to 1975 by Call Number: F395.C5 B76 2005
Exclusion
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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Call Number: E184. C5 L523 2003
Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Publication Date: 2012E-Book
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by Call Number: E184.C5 S755 2011
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Call Number: F358.2.C5 H78 2015- Between Two WorldsStreaming video. This program examines the exclusion years through the stories of Chinese Americans and their families who were kept apart by both ancient custom and U.S. law.
World War II
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Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War by Call Number: E184.C5 W65 2005
Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity: New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II / by Call Number: F128.9.C5 S67 2010
Of Orphans and Warriors: Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity by Call Number: E184.C5 C56 2000
The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Call Number: E184.C5 F86 2007
Cold War
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Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years by Publication Date: 2015E-Book
Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 by Call Number: DS33.4. U6 K55 2003
