SOCIOL M153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Malaysian Chinese, Min Zhou, Overseas Chinese
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4/12 who migrated: 4 patterns of chinese emigration, the trade pattern (pre-colonization, 1840) Transnational living (temporal residence, new family overseas) Network: the coolie/labor patterns (colonizing periods)(mid-19th-wwi) Selling labor -> looking for jobs: miners, railway workers. Australia, us (gold rush); peru, cuba, southeast asia (alternative to slaves) But cannot return due to exclusion (1900s to wwii) (if they go home they cannot come back again: the sojourning pattern (1st half of 20th century) Overseas chinese (loyalty to chinese nation, regard china as homeland) More diversity (from different parts of china, mixture of rich and poor/skilled and unskilled: descent or re-migrant pattern (post wwii) (de-colonization and countries trying to build their own national identities) Re-migration: e. g. , malaysian chinese migrating to u. s. National identity: they don"t necessarily see themselves as chinese (due to 1. 4/19 how they migrated: how they migrated, cross borders: mexico, cuba, canada (w3 reading) Under the help of intl. migration industries: smugglers.
