Elusive Refuge : : Chinese Migrants in the Cold War / / Laura Madokoro.
The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of China’s twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 5 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Written Out: The 1951 Convention and Refugees in Asia
- 2. Border Crossing: Migrants and the Refugee Label
- 3. Promoting Refugees: Western Humanitarians in Hong Kong
- 4. Troubled Times: Illegal Migration and the Refugee Subject
- 5. Cold War Visuals: Capturing the Politics of Resettlement
- 6. Navigating Change: Migrants and Regulated Movement
- 7. Humanitarianism in Myth and Practice: From Hong Kong to Indochina
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index