In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and settlers or sojourners, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters 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 imperial encounters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, identities in the twentieth and twenty-first...
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and settlers or sojourn...
