Bibliograph

Citizens in motion, emigration,immigration, and re-migration across China's borders, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

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Citizens in motion, emigration,immigration, and re-migration across China's borders, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Citizens in motion

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

Sub title

emigration,immigration, and re-migration across China's borders

Summary

More than 35 million Chinese people live outside China, but this population is far from homogenous, and its multifaceted national affiliations require careful theorization. This book unravels the multiple, shifting paths of global migration in Chinese society today, challenging a unilinear view of migration by presenting emigration, immigration, and re-migration trajectories that are occurring continually and simultaneously. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in China, Canada, Singapore, and the China-Myanmar border, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho takes the geographical space of China as the starting point from which to consider complex patterns of migration that shape nation-building and citizenship, both in origin and destination countries. She uniquely brings together various migration experiences and national contexts under the same analytical framework to create a rich portrait of the diversity of contemporary Chinese migration processes. By examining the convergence of multiple migration pathways across one geographical region over time, Ho offers alternative approaches to studying migration, migrant experience, and citizenship, thus setting the stage for future scholarship

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Emigration, immigration, and re-migration across China's borders

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