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
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Chinese United States
Chinese Americans History
Chinese Americans Biography
Chinese Americans Ethnic Identity
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Chinese World Diaspora

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Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration by Steven B. Miles
Publication Date: 2020

E-book
Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration by Shelly Chan
Call Number: DS732 .C43 2018

Publication Date: 2018

Available 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: 2018

E-book
Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora by Chee-Beng Tan
Call Number: DS732 .R68 2013
Chinese Overseas by Hong Liu
Call Number: DS732 .C557 2006

4 volumes
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia by Sunil S. Amrith
Publication Date: 2011

E-Book
Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora by Wei Djao
Call Number: DS732 .D45 2003
Chinatowns Around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora by Bernard P. Wong; Chee-Beng Tan
Call Number: E-Book

Publication Date: 2013
International Handbook of Chinese Families by Chan Kwok-bun
Publication Date: 2013

E-book
Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak
Publication Date: 2011

E-Book
Chinese Immigrants in Europe: Image, Identity and Social Participation by Yue Liu (Editor); Simeng Wang (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020

E-book
The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific by Anthony Reid
Call Number: DU28.1.C5 C45 2008
Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China by Glen Peterson
Call Number: DS732 .P47 2012
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard W. French
Call Number: DT16.C48 F74 2014

Chinese America

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Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community by Min Zhou
Call Number: E184.C5 Z474 2009

Available in print and as an e-book
Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values by Terry S. Trepper; May Tung
Publication Date: 2013

E-book
Sweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family by Louise Leung Larson
Publication Date: 2001

E-book
My Chinese-America by Allen Gee
Publication Date: 2015

E-Book
Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American by Shehong Chen
Call Number: E184 .C5 C466 2002
Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions by Him Mark Lai; Madeline Hsu
Call Number: E184.C5 L355 2004
Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community by Peter Kwong (Editor); Dusanka Miscevic
Call Number: E184.C5 K88 2005
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture by Sucheng Chan; Madeline Y. Hsu
Call Number: E184.C5 C4795 2008

Available in print and as an e-book
Chinese Heart of Texas: the San Antonio Community, 1875 to 1975 by Mel Brown
Call Number: F395.C5 B76 2005
Claiming Chinese Identity by Elionne L. W. Belden
Publication Date: 2020

E-book
A study of first generation Chinese youth and their parents who have immigrated to Houston, Texas.
The Chinese Texans by University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
Publication Date: 1981

E-Book
Chinese on the American Frontier by Arif Dirlik; Malcolm Yeung
Call Number: E184.C5 C496 2001
American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui
Call Number: E184.C5 T834 2009
Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present by Judy Yung; Gordon H. Chang; Him Mark Lai
Call Number: E184.C5 C479 2006

Exclusion

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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee
Call Number: E184. C5 L523 2003
Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era by Sucheng Chan
Call Number: E184.C5 C478 2006
Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Grace Delgado
Publication Date: 2012

E-Book
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by John Robert Soennichsen
Call Number: E184.C5 S755 2011
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Madeline Y. Hsu
Call Number: F358.2.C5 H78 2015
Between Two Worlds
Streaming 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 Wong
Call Number: E184.C5 W65 2005
Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity: New York's Chinese during the Depression and World War II / by Jingyi Song
Call Number: F128.9.C5 S67 2010
Of Orphans and Warriors: Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity by Gloria H. Chun
Call Number: E184.C5 C56 2000
The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Eddie Fung
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 Charlotte Brooks
Publication Date: 2015

E-Book
Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War by Cindy I-Fen Cheng
Publication Date: 2013

E-Book
Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 by Christina Klein
Call Number: DS33.4. U6 K55 2003