ISBN:
0203497341
,
9780203497340
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 272 pages)
Series Statement:
Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism 12
Parallel Title:
Print version State/nation/transnation
DDC:
304.85
Keywords:
Foreign workers Asia
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Foreign workers Pacific Area
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Asians Foreign countries
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Foreign workers
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Asians
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Foreign workers
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Transnationalism
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Transnationalism
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Foreign workers
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Foreign workers
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Asians
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
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Foreign workers
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Transnationalism
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Emigration and immigration
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Asia Emigration and immigration
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Pacific Area Emigration and immigration
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Asia Emigration and immigration
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Pacific Area Emigration and immigration
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Asia Emigration and immigration
;
Pacific Area Emigration and immigration
;
Asia
;
Pacific Area
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Introduction : transnationalism as a challenge to the nation / Katie Willis, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and S.M. Abdul Khader Fakhri2. The myth of the controllability of difference : labour migration, transnational communities and state strategies in the Asia-Pacific region / Stephen Castles -- 3. Spheres of speculation and middling transnational migrants : Chinese Indonesians in the Asia-Pacific / Donald M. Nonini -- 4. Citizenship and differential exclusion of immigrants in Japan / Keiko Yamanaka -- 5. Is there a transnation? : migrancy and the national homeland among overseas Filipinos / Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. -- 6. Expatriating is patriotic? : the discourse on "new migrants" in the People's Republic of China and identity construction among recent migrants from the PRC / Pál Nyíri -- 7. From nation to networks and back again : transnationalism, class and national identity in Malaysia / Tim Bunnell -- 8. Indian information technology professionals' world system : the nation and the transnation in individuals' migration strategies / Xiang Biao -- 9. Beyond transnational nationalism : questioning the borders of the Chinese diaspora in the global city / Ien Ang -- 10. Democracy, culture and the politics of gate-keeping in Cambodia : the transnation goes home / Caroline Hughes -- 11. Internal transnationalism and the formation of the Vietnamese diaspora / Andrew Hardy -- 12. Shifting the axis : feminism and the transnational imaginary / Vera Mackie.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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