Melancholy Order. Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. Adam M. McKeown. Columbia University Press. Melancholy Order. Share. Pub Date: March 2011.

As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased bordercontrol and identity documentation is the continuation of more than150 years of globalization.

The book reveals the history of borders and border controls. Europe thinks it is a new phenomen. But the influx of Chinese people in the USA already created the ...

In Melancholy Order, McKeown tells the story of how Asian and particularly Chinese migration to white settler nations in the. Pacific was restricted and ...

Apr 10, 2011 · In this book, McKeown's main arguments are, first, that the present-day form of border regulation—in which border control was increasingly ...

Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. By Adam M. McKeown. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xvi, 450 pp. $32.50 ...

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Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. Columbia Studies in International and Global History. New York: Columbia University ...

The book is divided into four parts. The first offers a broad examination of the rise of mass migration and migration regulation up to the 1870s, including ...