In contrast to 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 across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China, to highlight key themes of mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and 'race', heritage and diaspora, through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts and interviews.

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Series Editor Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific

Jacqueline Leckie, Angela McCarthy and Angela Wanhalla

Part 1: Imperial Encounters

1. Eurasians in Treaty-Port China: Journeys across Racial and Imperial Frontiers

Catherine Ladds

2. Photographic Portraits of Migrants from the Indentured Labour Archives in Mauritius: A Cross-Cultural Encounter

Kathleen Harrington-Watt

3. 'To his home at Jembaicumbene': Women's Cross-Cultural Encounters on a Colonial Goldfield

Kate Bagnall

Part 2: Identities

4. An Irishman, a Samoan and a Korean Walk into a Church: Three Encounters and New Zealand's Struggle for its National Identity 131

Andrew Butcher

5. Working Together for a Better Life: Contemporary ni-Vanuatu Labour Mobility in New Zealand

Rochelle Bailey

Part 3: Citizenship and Mobility

6. Asymmetrical Ambiguities: The 'White' Australia Policy', Travel, Migration and Citizenship in Vanuatu, 1945-1953

Gregory Rawlings

7. Minzu, Migration and Citizenship: Uyghur Migrants' Perceptions of Cross-Cultural Contact in China, Australia and New Zealand

Mei Ding

8. Postcolonial Migration and Social Diversity in Singapore

Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam

Index

Jacqueline Leckie is an associate professor in Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Angela Wanhalla is an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.