The Diplomacy of Migration : : Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War /

The Diplomacy of Migration : : Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War / / Meredith Oyen.

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During the Cold War, both Chinese and American officials employed a wide range of migration policies and practices to pursue legitimacy, security, and prestige. They focused on allowing or restricting immigration, assigning refugee status, facilitating student exchanges, and enforcing deportations....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Oyen, Meredith,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:The United States in the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 5 tables, 5 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Floating Population and Foreign Policy
  • Part I. Migration Diplomacy at War
  • 1. Unequal Allies: Renegotiating Exclusions
  • 2. The Diaspora Goes to War: Human Capital and China’s Defense
  • 3. A Fight on All Fronts: The Chinese Civil War, Restored Migration, and Emigration as National Policy
  • Part II. Migrant Cold Warriors
  • 4. Chinese Migrants as Cold Warriors: Immigration and Deportation in the 1950s
  • 5. Remitting to the Enemy: Transnational Family Finances and Foreign Policy
  • 6. Crossing the Bamboo Curtain: Using Refugee Policy to Support Free China
  • Part III. Shifting Exclusions
  • 7. Cold War Hostages: Repatriation Policy and the Sino-American Ambassadorial Talks
  • 8. Visa Diplomacy: The Taiwan Independence Movement and Changing U.S.-Chinese Relations
  • Conclusion: Coming in from the Cold
  • Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Index

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