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    Millionaire migrants : trans-Pacific life lines (2010)
    Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell
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    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
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    NW 2200
    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
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    DOI: 10.1002/9781444319262
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    Eurostars and Eurocities : free movement and mobility in an integrating Europe (2008)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 9780470712580 , 9781281840646 , 1405134054 , 1405134046 , 0470712813 , 9781405134057 , 9781405134040 , 9780470712818
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 279 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Studies in urban and social change
    Parallel Title: Print version Eurostars and Eurocities
    DDC: 304.8/4
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Case studies Research ; Nationalism ; Transnationalism ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research, it uncovers the rarely studied human dimension of European integrationExamines the mobility, lifestyle and career opportunities created by the borderless society of the European Union, as well as the barriers that still persistAnalyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and
    Description / Table of Contents: EUROSTARS AND EUROCITIES: FREE MOVEMENT AND MOBILITY IN AN INTEGRATING EUROPE; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; 1 Freedom-Vrijheid-Liberté; 2 New Amsterdam; 3 London Calls; 4 Brussels-Brussel-Bruxelles; 5 Migration; 6 Mobility (1); 7 Mobility (2); 8 Settlement; 9 Integration (1); 10 Integration (2); 11 London Loves; 12 Old Amsterdam; 13 Anomie; 14 Europa; Postface; Appendix 1: Summary of Interviews; Appendix 2: A Note on Methodology; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index of Interviewees; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-263) and indexes , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470712818
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    URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712818
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    Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization (2008)
    Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell
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    ISBN: 1405190418 , 1444307193 , 9781405190411 , 9781444307191
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 362 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization
    DDC: 305.5/633
    Keywords: Plant biotechnology Political aspects ; Transnationalism ; Culture and globalization ; Peasants ; Land reform ; Solidarity ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically modified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop down rubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families, 'runaway villages' in China that take up arms to resist corrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited in desperation, return from abroad to transform their communitiesLittle-known transnational agrarian movement
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 Transnational Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics,Campaigns and Impact; 2 Peasants Make Their Own History,But Not Just as They Please ...; 3 Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America: Histories,Challenges,Prospects; 4 La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform; 5 'Late Mobilization ':Transnational Peasant Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa; 6 Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India,South Africa and Brazil
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Trade and Biotechnology in Latin America:Democratization,Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization8 Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia; 9 Whose Rules Rule?Contested Projects to Certify 'Local Production for Distant Consumers '; 10 Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico; 11 From Covert to Overt:Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements; 12 Where There Is No Movement: Local Resistance and the Potential for Solidarity; Index
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    DOI: 10.1002/9781444307191
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