New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home, and Inspirations

ISBN-13: 9780367594077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Yuk Wah Chan; Sin Yee Koh

Opis

This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Chinese migration since the 1980s. It provides updated trends and patterns of new migration movements of the Chinese, including their emergent geographies. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new waves of Chinese migration, this volume offers novel insights

Spis treści

Part I: New Migrants from Mainland China

1. From Chinatown to China’s Town? The Newest Chinese Diaspora and the Socio-economic and Cultural Transformation of Sydney’s Chinatown and Beyond, Alexandra Wong & Ien Ang

2. The New Chinese Immigrants in Japan: Longing and Belonging in an Ethno-National Society, Gracia Liu-Farrer

3. New Chinese Migrants from China to New Zealand: Pathways, Mobility, Multigenerational Families and Policy Implications, Liangni Sally Liu & Xiaoan Wu

4. Realising the ‘Chinese Dream’: Chinese Migrants in West Africa, Katy N. Lam

5. Transnational Circuit and Yemen-China Migrations: An Emerging China-Arab Connection, Wai-Yip Ho

Part II: The HK-Taiwan-China Migration Triangle

6. The Paradox between Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation: Student Migration across the Taiwan Strait, Pei-chia Lan

7. Intra-Asian Infrastructures of Chinese Birth Tourism: Agencies’ Operations in China and Taiwan, Sean H. Wang

8. Life ‘Offshored’: New Migrations to Taiwan from Post-1997 Hong Kong, Yuk Wah Chan and Heidi Fung

9. Beipiao and Gangpiao: Young Chinese Migrants’ Drifting Experiences in Beijing and Hong Kong, Linda Yin-nor Tjia and Wing-Chung Ho

Part III: The ongoing migration of Chinese overseas from Southeast Asia

10. Why Stay? Comparing Malaysian Chinese Skilled Migrants in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore, Kok Chung Ong

11. Diverse Migration Geographies of Tertiary-Educated Malaysian-Chinese Migrants: Anything New? Sin Yee Koh

12. Immigration and Shifting Conceptions of Citizenship: The Case of Stateless Chinese-Bruneians in Canada, Amanda R. Cheong

Part IV: Conclusion

13. New Directions for Overseas Chinese and Migration Studies: Migrants, State-Diaspora Relations and Transborder Governance, Yuk Wah Chan

O autorze

Yuk Wah Chan is Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests cover international migration, tourism, borderland, identity, food and death studies. She has published a number of volumes on Asian migration and diasporas and is one of the Series Editors of the Routledge Series on Asian Migration.

Sin Yee Koh is Assistant Professor (Geography) at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Her research is positioned at the intersections of migration studies and urban studies.