This book documents an instance of one of the most momentous social phenomena of the late twentieth century: the mass migration of the world's population from agricultural ex-colonies and ex-protectorates to the industrial world.
"This book is breathtaking in its scope and detail. Hoerder has done world history a great service, speaking to multiculturalism while providing the nuts and bolts of migration history over time and space.
"--Harper's "The clarity, directness and originality of this small book should. . . . earn it many readers who will wonder at the tangled web of the living world and the variousness of the human mind."--Scientific American
In this personable and poignant defense of assimilation, written in the tradition of Richard Rodriguez and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the nation's leading young Asian-American voices tackles issues of race, identity, and politics.