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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 Tan Chee-Beng; Colin Storey; Julia ZimmermanCall Number: DS732 .I5645 2007An overview of sources with extensive bibliographies.
Chinese World Diaspora
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- Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration by Shelly ChanCall Number: DS732 .C43 2018Publication Date: 2018Available in print and as an e-book
- New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home and Inspirations by Yuk Wah Chan (Editor); Sin Yee Koh (Editor)Publication Date: 2018E-book
- Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora by Chee-Beng TanCall Number: DS732 .R68 2013
- Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora by Wei DjaoCall Number: DS732 .D45 2003
- Chinatowns Around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora by Bernard P. Wong; Chee-Beng TanCall Number: E-BookPublication Date: 2013
- Chinese Immigrants in Europe: Image, Identity and Social Participation by Yue Liu (Editor); Simeng Wang (Editor)Publication Date: 2020E-book
- The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific by Anthony ReidCall Number: DU28.1.C5 C45 2008
- Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China by Glen PetersonCall Number: DS732 .P47 2012
- China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard W. FrenchCall Number: DT16.C48 F74 2014
Chinese America
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- Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community by Peter Kwong (Editor); Dusanka MiscevicCall Number: E184.C5 K88 2005
- Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture by Sucheng Chan; Madeline Y. HsuCall Number: E184.C5 C4795 2008Available in print and as an e-book
- Chinese on the American Frontier by Arif Dirlik; Malcolm YeungCall Number: E184.C5 C496 2001
- American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie TsuiCall Number: E184.C5 T834 2009
- Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions by Him Mark Lai; Madeline HsuCall Number: E184.C5 L355 2004
- Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American by Shehong ChenCall Number: E184 .C5 C466 2002
- Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community by Min ZhouCall Number: E184.C5 Z474 2009Available in print and as an e-book
- Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present by Judy Yung; Gordon H. Chang; Him Mark LaiCall Number: E184.C5 C479 2006
- Chinese Heart of Texas: the San Antonio Community, 1875 to 1975 by Mel BrownCall Number: F395.C5 B76 2005
- The Chinese Texans by University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San AntonioPublication Date: 1981E-Book
Exclusion
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- At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika LeeCall Number: E184. C5 L523 2003
- The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by John Robert SoennichsenCall Number: E184.C5 S755 2011
- The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Madeline Y. HsuCall 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 K. Scott WongCall Number: E184.C5 W65 2005
- Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity: New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II / by Jingyi SongCall Number: F128.9.C5 S67 2010
- Of Orphans and Warriors: Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity by Gloria H. ChunCall Number: E184.C5 C56 2000
- The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Eddie FungCall Number: E184.C5 F86 2007
Cold War
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- Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years by Charlotte BrooksPublication Date: 2015E-Book
- Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War by Cindy I-Fen ChengPublication Date: 2013E-Book
- Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 by Christina KleinCall Number: DS33.4. U6 K55 2003