Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground

Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground is an open educational resource that engages transpacific histories of interracial sex, intimate labour, and migration—that is, the undercurrent of imperial expansion and settler colonialism in the pacific region throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The website brings together various archival materials that include multimodal stories and portrayals of individuals involved in the transnational and interracial sex trade. While these materials do not provide us with a comprehensive and coherent narrative about the lives of these individuals, and hardly centre their own voices, they create a space to imagine the historically underrepresented lives of those who survived and died in the transpacific underground economy.
The development of this resource was supported by the UBCV OER Fund.