Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

Book chapter

David C. Atkinson
Benjamin Bryce, Alexander Freund, Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada , University Press of Florida, 2015, pp. 120-140

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APA Click to copy
Atkinson, D. C. (2015). "Out of One Borderland, Many: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Spatial Dimensions of Race and Migration in the Canadian-US Pacific Borderlands" In B. Bryce & A. Freund (Eds.) (Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada , pp. 120–140). University Press of Florida.

Chicago/Turabian Click to copy
Atkinson, David C. “&Quot;Out of One Borderland, Many: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Spatial Dimensions of Race and Migration in the Canadian-US Pacific Borderlands&Quot;” In , edited by Benjamin Bryce and Alexander Freund, 120–140. Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada . University Press of Florida, 2015.

MLA Click to copy
Atkinson, David C. &Quot;Out of One Borderland, Many: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Spatial Dimensions of Race and Migration in the Canadian-US Pacific Borderlands&Quot; Edited by Benjamin Bryce and Alexander Freund, Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada , University Press of Florida, 2015, pp. 120–40.

BibTeX Click to copy

@inbook{david2015a,
  title = {"Out of One Borderland, Many: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Spatial Dimensions of Race and  Migration in the Canadian-US Pacific Borderlands"},
  year = {2015},
  edition = {Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada },
  pages = {120-140},
  publisher = {University Press of Florida},
  author = {Atkinson, David C.},
  editor = {Bryce, Benjamin and Freund, Alexander}
}

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This chapter uses the 1907 Anti-Asian riots in Bellingham, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia to argue that borderlands are not necessarily circumscribed, contiguous, or even singular spaces. In September 1907, anti-Asian riots broke out within days of each other in those two cities. Unmoored from their ostensibly local roots, the riots reveal a multiplicity of entwined and globally contested borderlands in which transnational political, economic, and cultural forces dislocated the narrow confines of city, state, province, nation, and even empire. This broader transnational framework reveals the multiple overlapping scales upon which the history of the 1907 riots transpired, and the Canadian-U.S. Pacific Borderlands emerges as at once a local, national, regional, imperial, and global borderland when analyzed through these multiple spatial registers.