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dc.contributor.authorNUGTEREN, Bastiaan
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-02T09:18:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2023en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/75286
dc.descriptionDefence date: 27 January 2023en
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Prof. dr. Corinna R. Unger, (European University Institute); Prof. dr. Lucy Riall, (European University Institute); Prof. dr. Clare Anderson, (University of Leicester); Prof. dr. Martin Dusinberre, (Universität Zürich)en
dc.description.abstractPlaced in the global context of emerging borders and modernizing immigration policies, this dissertation on the regulation of Chinese migration to the Netherlands East Indies and the British Straits Settlements aims to show how both regional continuities and global developments have shaped the history of Chinese migration in Southeast Asia between 1870 and 1914. Where at first Chinese migrants roamed relatively freely within this region and regulation of their migration was limited, the Dutch and British gradually started imposing heavier restrictions with various results. Equipping both a transimperial approach and a regional framework, this dissertation addresses the difficulties the Dutch and British colonial states had in carefully regulating the movement and migration of Chinese to, within, and beyond the borders of their territories in Southeast Asia. The complexities, contradictions, and near impossibility of such attempts to regulation stand at the heart of this research project. It aims to address that migration regulation of Chinese coincided and merged with various systems and logics of migration control, ranging from the erection of a labor-exploitative indentured labor system to discussions of full exclusions and immigration stops borrowed from a global context wherein Chinese were increasingly excluded from white settler states and colonies. This dissertation argues that Chinese migration to Southeast Asia played an important part in the globalization of borders that took place in response to the ‘Asian mobility revolution’ in the latenineteenth and early-twentieth century. But the increased regulation and/or exclusion of Chinese migrants on a global scale also heavily impacted the Southeast-Asian colonies of the Dutch and British. Stuck between competing interests of various actors and from forces on different scales, regulation of Chinese immigration in these two colonies was far from an easy and uncontested affair.en
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHECen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessen
dc.subject.lcshChina -- Emigration and immigration -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshSoutheast Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Historyen
dc.titleFrom Kongsis and merchants to ‘coolies’ and immigrants : the globalization of borders and the regulation of Chinese migration in Dutch and British colonial Southeast Asia, 1870-1914en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/47491
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dc.embargo.terms2027-01-27
dc.date.embargo2027-01-27


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