Melancholy Order

Adam M. McKeown is an associate professor of history at Columbia University, where he teaches the history of globalization, drugs in world history, and global migrations. His most recent book is Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936.

出版者:Columbia University Press

作者:Adam M. McKeown

页数:472

出版时间:2008-12-9

价格:USD 85.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780231140768

图书标签:历史McKeown_Adam美国未读完历史学中国diasporaGlobal

As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of global mobility, but they are also tied to the emergence of individuals and nations as the primary sites of global power and identity. McKeown's detailed history traces how, rather than being a legacy of "traditional" forms of sovereignty, practices of border control historically rose from attempts to control Asian migration around the Pacific in the 1880s. New policies to control mobility had to be justified in the context of contemporary liberal ideas of freedom and mobility, generating principles that are taken for granted today, such as the belief that migration control is a sovereign right of receiving nations and that it should occur at a country's borders. McKeown shows how the enforcement of these border controls required migrants to be extracted from social networks of identity and reconstructed as isolated individuals within centralized filing systems.

Methods for excluding Asians from full participation in the "family of civilized nations" are now the norm between all nations. These practices also helped institutionalize global cultural and economic divisions, such as East/West and First and Third World designations, which continue to shape our understanding.

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以护照为代表的身份证明以及边界控制的出现是由十九世纪后期美强制实行排华法案等措施对亚洲移民的控制而起。福柯强调现代人类灵魂是权力的主要产品而非批判的场所，作者则想要超越其观点。

研究移民、国界、边境控制的著作。就我读到的部分来说，作者的关注点在于从现代国家这一政治模式的兴起中追踪生命权力如何在移民行为，如边境控制、身份鉴定等领域的践行，以及考察在当代国际秩序的起源和扩散中，“解放性”的趋势（人口“自由流动”）背后的殖民性因素（种族驱除）。还有一章重新描绘了19世纪末20世纪初的全球移民总体状况，批判了以前学术的欧洲（人）中心、跨大西洋中心的取向和这一学术话语造成的对于亚洲等地区的刻板印象。

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以护照为代表的身份证明以及边界控制的出现是由十九世纪后期美强制实行排华法案等措施对亚洲移民的控制而起。福柯强调现代人类灵魂是权力的主要产品而非批判的场所，作者则想要超越其观点。

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