Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific

Name: Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and \u2019settlers\u2019 or \u2019sojourners\u2019, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon \u2013 whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters \u2013 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 \u2019imperial encounters\u2019 of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, \u2019identities\u2019 in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and \u2019contemporary citizenship\u2019 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 \u2019race\u2019, heritage and diaspora, through rich.