A01=Won K. Yoon
Asian American history
Author_Won K. Yoon
Category=JBSL
Category=NHF
Category=NHK
Category=NHTB
East Asian diaspora
East Asian history
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exclusion laws
guano
indentured laborers
international migration
internment camps
Latin American history
migration history
Nikkei
Opium War
picture brides
relocation camps
war brides
WWII
Product details
- ISBN 9781793628558
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants’ experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese paper (fraudulent) wives and daughters, Korean picture marriages, and Japanese war brides, analyzing the impact of racism and colonialism on East Asian groups and family experiences in the West.
Won K. Yoon is retired and was long-time professor of sociology at La Sierra University and Loma Linda University.
