Unexpected Encounters in Island Worlds

Interactions Between ROC/Taiwan Fishers and Chinese Diaspora Communities in the 20th‐Century Pacific

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ID6305743
AuthorsJess Marinaccio (0009-0006-2090-1334, California State University Dominguez Hills Carson California USA, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-03-20
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNations and Nationalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nana.13109
OpenAlexW4408742504
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities resident in the ROC or the PRC and those living abroad have affected the identity of Chinese diaspora communities and diplomatic recognition of the ROC/PRC. This paper uses archival records to examine how ROC/Taiwan fishers interacted with Chinese diaspora communities in various Pacific countries between the 1950s and the 1980s during a period when shipwrecks and disputes over illegal fishing consistently stranded fishers throughout the region. The paper argues that the (im)mobility of fishers and their unexpected relationships with diaspora communities suggest new avenues for studying the complexity and beyond‐the‐state relationships of Chinese diaspora groups

Diaspora · Economic geography · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

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