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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
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: 2020E-bookDiaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration by Shelly Chan
Call Number: DS732 .C43 2018Publication Date: 2018Available in print and as an e-bookNew Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home and Inspirations by Yuk Wah Chan (Editor); Sin Yee Koh (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018E-bookRoutledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora by Chee-Beng Tan
Call Number: DS732 .R68 2013Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora by Wei Djao
Call Number: DS732 .D45 2003Chinatowns Around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora by Bernard P. Wong; Chee-Beng Tan
Call Number: E-BookPublication Date: 2013Chinese Immigrants in Europe: Image, Identity and Social Participation by Yue Liu (Editor); Simeng Wang (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020E-bookThe Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific by Anthony Reid
Call Number: DU28.1.C5 C45 2008Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China by Glen Peterson
Call Number: DS732 .P47 2012China'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 2009Available in print and as an e-bookChinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values by Terry S. Trepper; May Tung
Publication Date: 2013E-bookSweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family by Louise Leung Larson
Publication Date: 2001E-bookBeing Chinese, Becoming Chinese American by Shehong Chen
Call Number: E184 .C5 C466 2002Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions by Him Mark Lai; Madeline Hsu
Call Number: E184.C5 L355 2004Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community by Peter Kwong (Editor); Dusanka Miscevic
Call Number: E184.C5 K88 2005Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture by Sucheng Chan; Madeline Y. Hsu
Call Number: E184.C5 C4795 2008Available in print and as an e-bookChinese Heart of Texas: the San Antonio Community, 1875 to 1975 by Mel Brown
Call Number: F395.C5 B76 2005Claiming Chinese Identity by Elionne L. W. Belden
Publication Date: 2020E-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: 1981E-BookChinese on the American Frontier by Arif Dirlik; Malcolm Yeung
Call Number: E184.C5 C496 2001American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui
Call Number: E184.C5 T834 2009Chinese 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 2003The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by John Robert Soennichsen
Call Number: E184.C5 S755 2011The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Madeline Y. Hsu
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 K. Scott Wong
Call Number: E184.C5 W65 2005Shaping 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 2010Of Orphans and Warriors: Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity by Gloria H. Chun
Call Number: E184.C5 C56 2000The 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: 2015E-BookCitizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War by Cindy I-Fen Cheng
Publication Date: 2013E-BookCold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 by Christina Klein
Call Number: DS33.4. U6 K55 2003