附註:Title from e-book title screen (viewed Nov. 23, 2004).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminaries; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1 -- Mapping Australasia: reflections on the permeability of Australia's northern maritime borders; 2 -- Tidal Flows: an overview of Torres Strait Islander-Asian contact; 3 -- The Chinese Diaspora in Torres Strait: cross-cultural connections and contentions on Thursday Island; 4 -- 'They don't know what went on underneath' : three little-known Filipino/Malay communities of Torres Strait; 5 -- Heriberto Zarcal: the first Filipino-Australian; 6 -- The Japanese in Torres Strait; 7 -- The Sri Lankan Settlers of Thursday Island.
摘要:These essays draw upon an extensive, widely dispersed body of information to narrate stories of the Asian diaspora communities of Torres Strait, north Queensland.