Singapore As A Nineteenth Century Migration Node
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23707353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl A Trocki (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 198-224 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Connecting seas and connected ocean rims (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/ej.9789004193161.i-552.52 |
| OpenAlex | W899912420 |
| ISBN | 9789004193161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
[ A focus on the century from the 1830s to the 1930s provides an adequate periodization for connecting the migration systems of several seas. To show how rivers, seas, and oceans either connect or divide and how the nineteenth century seaborne migrations emerged from century-long practices, the chapter provides traveling knowledges and early seafaring and then turn to the most intensely traversed waters, the Indian Ocean and the East and Southeast Asian Seas. Beginning in the period of the early 1400s to the 1520s, the chapter describes how global changes in trade protocols and relations, in power hierarchies and early empire-building shaped macroregions far earlier than nineteenth century globalization: continuities and adaptations in the South and East Asian Seas before the 1830s' introduction of indentured and free mass migrations, the expansion of the West African-Iberian to a transoceanic Black Atlantic, the emergence of the White Atlantic and the transpacific routes. Keywords:Black Atlantic; global changes; Indian Ocean; power hierarchies; seaborne migrations; Southeast Asian Seas; trade protocols; White Atlantic , Hong Kong is often mentioned in relation to Chinese migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but its full role in the process is seldom seriously explored. This chapter discusses the concept of the in-between place to highlight Hong Kong's role as a transit point for migrants and, on another level, as a transit and intermediary place for migrants' things—letters, goods, information, remittances, and their bones after death. A study of the different functions Hong Kong performed to meet the Chinese migrant's special economic, social, and cultural needs offers a fuller picture of the migration process. More broadly, the concept of the in-between place is offered as a possible paradigm for the comparative study of migration movements across time and space. Keywords:Chinese diaspora; Chinese migration; concept of in-between place; Hong Kong ]
Ancient history · Atlantic slave trade · Economy · Empire · Geography · Globalization · Periodization · Political science · Power (physics) · White (mutation) · History · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |