Sojourners and Settlers : Chinese Migrants in Hawaii / Clarence E. Glick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glick, Clarence E., Author.

Contributor:

University of Hawaiʻi Foundation, Funder.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world.Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu.Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Maps

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Cycle of Migration

2. On the Sugar Plantations

3. On the Rural Frontier

4. On the Urban Frontier

5. Settlement, Investment, Entrenchment

6. Urbanization

7. The Migrants' Chinatown

8. Migrant Families

9. Group Identity and Early Migrant Organizations

10. Migrant Organizations and Community Crises

11. Differentiation and Integration

12. From Familism to Nationalism

13. Personal Prestige

14. Group Status

Appendix: Population of the Hawaiian Islands by Racial and Ethnic Groups: 1853-1970

Glossary

Index

Authors Cited in Notes

Plates

Notes:

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

9780824882402

0824882407

OCLC:

1191863918