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Migration and diaspora in modern Asia / Sunil S. Amrith

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-97634-6 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-89835-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-72702-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 967395699     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511976346

JV8490

304.8095     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Immigrants -- Asia -- History ; Refugees -- Asia -- History ; Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History ; Asians -- Migrations ; Asian diaspora

Asian diaspora ; Asians ; Migrations ; Immigrants ; Asia ; History ; Refugees ; Asia ; History ; Asia ; Emigration and immigration ; History

Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative book crosses a vast terrain, from the Middle East to India and China, tracing the history of modern migration. Animated by the voices of Asian migrants, it tells the stories of those forced to flee from war and revolution, and those who left their homes and their families in search of a better life. These stories of Asian diasporas can be joyful or poignant, but they all speak of an engagement with new landscapes and new peoples

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