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Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific book cover

1st Edition

Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific

Edited By Jacqueline Leckie, Angela McCarthy, Angela Wanhalla Copyright 2017
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ’settlers’ or ’sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon â€“ whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters â€“ bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their... Read more


List of Figures



List of Tables



List of Contributors



Series Editor Preface



Acknowledgements





Introduction: Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific



Jacqueline Leckie, Angela McCarthy and Angela Wanhalla





Part 1: Imperial Encounters



1. Eurasians in Treaty-Port China: Journeys across Racial and Imperial Frontiers



Catherine Ladds





2. Photographic Portraits of Migrants from the Indentured Labour Archives in Mauritius: A Cross-Cultural Encounter



Kathleen Harrington-Watt





3. ‘To his home at Jembaicumbene’: Women’s Cross-Cultural Encounters on a Colonial Goldfield



Kate Bagnall





Part 2: Identities



4. An Irishman, a Samoan and a Korean Walk into a Church: Three Encounters and New Zealand’s Struggle for its National Identity 131



Andrew Butcher





5. Working Together for a Better Life: Contemporary ni-Vanuatu Labour Mobility in New Zealand



Rochelle Bailey





Part 3: Citizenship and Mobility



6. Asymmetrical Ambiguities: The ‘White’ Australia Policy’, Travel, Migration and Citizenship in Vanuatu, 1945–1953



Gregory Rawlings





7. Minzu, Migration and Citizenship: Uyghur Migrants’ Perceptions of Cross-Cultural Contact in China, Australia and New Zealand



Mei Ding





8. Postcolonial Migration and Social Diversity in Singapore



Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam



Index

Biography

Jacqueline Leckie is an associate professor in Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago, New Zealand.



Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.



Angela Wanhalla is an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

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