Immigration and Ethnic History [Paperback]

Mae M. Ngai takes an in-depth look at the recent changes in immigration history, another field that has benefited from the transnational turn,which has pushed scholarship beyond the traditional study of white Europeans and placed new emphasis on ethnicity, worldwide patterns of migration, diaspora, and hybridity.Mae M. Ngai takes an in-depth look at the recent changes in immigration history, another field that has benefited from the transnational turn,which has pushed scholarship beyond the traditional study of white Europeans and placed new emphasis on ethnicity, worldwide patterns of migration, diaspora, and hybridity.Series ForewordIntroductionEmigration and ImmigrationThe Uprooted and the TransplantedThe Transnational TurnBorderlandsEthnicity and RaceImmigration and Immigration History in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyMae M. Ngai is Lung Family professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010).