ISBN:
9781405192910
,
9781405192927
,
1444319264
,
128255008X
,
9781444319262
,
9781282550087
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 314 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
RBS-IBG book series
Parallel Title:
Print version Millionaire Migrants : Trans-Pacific Life Lines
DDC:
304.8095
Keywords:
International business enterprises
;
Elite (Social sciences)
;
International business enterprises
;
Elite (Social sciences)
;
Transnationalism
;
East Asia Emigration and immigration
;
Canada Emigration and immigration
;
Kanada
;
Einwanderung
;
Hongkong
;
Taiwan
;
Wirtschaftliche Elite
;
Internationale Migration
Abstract:
Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and SingaporeTraces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 year periodOffers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions of neo-liberal globalization, and an
Description / Table of Contents:
Millionaire Migrants:Trans-Pacific Life Lines; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Trans-Pacifi c Mobility and the New Immigration Paradigm; 2 Transition: From the Orient to the Pacifi c Rim; 3 Calculating Agents: Millionaire Migrants Meet the Canadian State; 4 Geography (still) Matters: Homo Economicus and the Business Immigration Programme; 5 Embodied Real Estate: The Cultural Mobility of Property; 6 Immigrant Reception: Contesting Globalization… or Resistant Racism?
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Establishing Roots: From the Nuclear Family to Substantive Citizenship8 Roots and Routes: The Myth of Return or Transnational Circulation?; 9 Conclusion: Immigrants in Space; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9781444319262
URL:
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