Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia
This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2012.
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| Σειρά: | International Perspectives on Migration ;
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction: 1: Theorizing and Proving Intersectionality in Transnational Contexts: Caroline Plüss and Chan Kwok-bun
- Section One: Explaining Mobility and Inequality
- 2: A Returnee’s Hybridity: Its Upside and Downside: Chan Kwok-bun
- 3: Theorizing Immigrant Family Adaptation, Maladaptation, and Poverty: New Arrivals in Hong Kong from Mainland China: Chan Kwok-bun
- 4: Class, Migration, and Identity in a Philippine Village: Philip Kelly
- Section Two: Nation States, Social Networks and Emotional Spaces: 5: Social Strain and the Adaptive Behavior of Hong Kong Return Migrants: Chan Kwok-bun and Chan Wai-wan
- 6: The Role of the State in Transnational Migrant Identity Formation: A ‘Uniquely Singapore’ Experience?: Selina Lim
- Section Three: Transnational Positionalities and Cultural Capital: 7: Chinese-Singaporean Repeat Migrant Women: Transnational Positionalities and Social Inequalities: Caroline Plüss
- 8: Transnational Motherhood in the Making of Global Kids: South Korean Educational Migrants in Singapore: Yoonhee Kang
- 9: Becoming New Overseas Chinese: Transnational Practices and Identity Construction among the Chinese Migrants in Japan: Gracia Liu-Farrer
- Section Four: Locating Transnational Identifications
- 10: Identifying the Periphery: Challenging Citizenship, Nationality, and Identity on the Ogasawara Islands; David Chapman
- 11: Brokers of Nostalgia: Shan Migrant Public Spheres in Chiang Mai, Thailand: Amporn Jirattikorn
- 12: Identities and Decentered Transnational Linkages: Return Migrants in Hong Kong: Lucille Lok-sun Ngan
- Conclusion: 13: Living in the Intersections of Cultures, Societies, Emotions, Politics and Economies: Deterritorializing Culture: Caroline Plüss.
