Transporter de la main-d'oeuvre chinoise àPanama: enjeux économiques et représentations d'un jeune ingénieur suisse àla fin du xix e siècle/Chinese Labor Transport to Panama: Economic Issues and Personal Views of a Young Swiss Engineer at the end of the 19th Century

Besides immigrants from Asia and the West Indies, Chinese labour recruitment experienced a boom in the nineteenth century. This movement gave birth to many Chinatowns, and intensified a Chinese settlement movement to the West, especially in the Americas. The hiring in 1886 of a young Swiss engineer...

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Published in:Relations internationales 2016-01, Vol.3 (167), p.73
Main Author: Tissot, Laurent
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
19th century
Building engineers
Childbirth & labor
Emigration
Engineers
Hiring
Immigrants
Recruitment
Transportation
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Summary:Besides immigrants from Asia and the West Indies, Chinese labour recruitment experienced a boom in the nineteenth century. This movement gave birth to many Chinatowns, and intensified a Chinese settlement movement to the West, especially in the Americas. The hiring in 1886 of a young Swiss engineer by a company in charge of building the Panama Canal demonstrated the connections between the economic issues attached to his mission and the representations emanating from his external view of China and his encounter with the Chinese there. Based on the correspondence of this young engineer with his parents, this article aims to better understand how he perceived China through its emigrants and the Western representations of the latter.
ISSN:0335-2013
2105-2654