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“... it was the latter who dominated popular conceptions of the Chinese diaspora. In her new book Mae Ngai, a historian of Asian America at Columbia, recognises the global character of Asian exclusion. She addresses the fate of Chinese workers in the US and Australia, but also considers South Africa and the sixty thousand Chinese recruited to work in the ...”

“... first fugitives from racial equality on whom the American sun decided to shine. As the historian Mae Ngai has pointed out, the first federal refugee resettlement programme, established in 1794, allocated the equivalent of $440 million to assist French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution. Washington, Madison and Jefferson welcomed the slaveholders ...”