Immigration is much in the news. Here is a selection of books we have reviewed, mostly recently, a few from farther back, on the subject: non-fiction, fiction and even some children’s books. Although many discuss Asian immigration to the West, this list is a reminder that the various diasporas are not limited to West; there is even intra-Asia migration.
Non-Fiction
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
by Beth Lew-Williams
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown
by Lauren Hilgers
Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown and The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo
by Scott D Seligman
Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture
by Vanita Reddy
Asian Britain: A Photographic History
by Susheila Nasta
a memoir by Tash Aw
Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
by Brian C Bernards
Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora
by Sana Aiyar
Children’s Fiction
by Kelly Yang
by Kay Honeyman
by Thanhha Lai
Fiction
Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
China Dolls by Lisa See
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
Deep Singh Blue by Ranbir Singh Sidhu
The Blind Writer by Sameer Pandya
Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon
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