Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific

Description

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 “ whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters “ bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically into sections focusing on imperial encounters  of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, identities  in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and contemporary citizenship  and the ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and race , heritage and diaspora, through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through blending historical and social science methodologies from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration, mobility and cross-cultural encounters. (Source: Google Books API)