Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era

ISBN-13: 9781137557100 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

Angela Lehmann; Pauline Leonard

Spis treści

1. International Migrants in China: Civility, Contradiction and Confusion

Part I Getting In and Getting On: Negotiating Bureaucracy and Immigration Restrictions

2. Marriage Immigration and Illegality in China’s Ethnic Borders

3. Residence Registration in China’s Immigration Control: Africans in Guangzhou

Part II New Country, New Beginning? Constructing New Identities and Social Positions

4. Educational Desire and Pursuit of a Transnational Badge among South Korean Middle-class Parents in Beijing

5. From Expatriates to New Cosmopolitans? Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong

6. Japanese Labour Migration to China and IT Service Outsourcing: The Case of Dalian

7. “Devils” or “Superstars”? Making English Language Teachers in China

Part IV Making Urban Spaces: Entrepreneurialism, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism

8. Culinary Globalization from Above and Below: Culinary Migrants in Urban Place Making in Shanghai

9. Creating and Managing an International Community: Immigration, Integration, and Governance in a Mainland Chinese City

O autorze

Angela Lehmann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Xiamen, China. Her research focuses on migration into China and urban change. Her ethnographic study into expatriates living in China was published as Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City by  in 2014.

Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She has published extensively on privileged migration, including Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness (2010) and Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (2014).