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22 - Brokerage and Migrations during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

from Part VII - Migrant Communities, Cultures, and Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Xiao An Wu
Edited by
Marcelo J. Borges  and
Madeline Y. Hsu
Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

Keywords

Brokers and BrokerageTerminologies of MobilityMigrants and BrokersMigrations and BrokerageEmpire and State as BrokerageCulture as BrokerageGeography as BrokerageBrokers and Chinese Migration
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 461 - 480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Bélanger, Danièle and Wang, Hong-zen. “Becoming a Migrant: Vietnamese Emigration to East Asia.” Pacific Affairs 86, 1 (2013), 31–50.Google Scholar
Butcher, John and Dick, Howard, eds. The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hagedorn, Nancy L. “Brokers of Understanding: Interpreters as Agents of Cultural Exchange in Colonial New York.” New York History 76, 4 (1995), 379–408.Google Scholar
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. “Folklorists in Public: Reflections on Cultural Brokerage in the United States and Germany.” Journal of Folklore Research 37, 1 (2000), 1–21.Google Scholar
Martino, Enrique. “Panya: Economies of Deception and the Discontinuities of Indentured Labor Recruitment and the Slave Trade, Nigeria and Fernando Pó, 1890s–1940s.” African Economic History 44 (2016), 91–129.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ngai, Mae M. “Legacies of Exclusion: Illegal Chinese Immigration during the Cold War Years.” Journal of American Ethnic History 18, 1 (1998), 3–35.Google Scholar
Nugent, Paul. “Putting the History Back into Ethnicity: Enslavement, Religion, and Cultural Brokerage in the Construction of Mandinka/Jola and Ewe/Agotime Identities in West Africa, c. 1650–1930.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 50, 4 (2008), 920–948.Google Scholar
Sutherland, Heather. Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c. 1600–c.1906. Singapore: NUS Press, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wu, Xiao An. Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882–1941: Kedah and Penang. Singapore: NUS Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Zarazaga, Rodrigo. “Brokers beyond Clientelism: A New Perspective through the Argentine Case.” Latin American Politics and Society 56, 3 (2014), 23–45.Google Scholar

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