1st Edition
International Migrants in China's Global City The New Shanghailanders
1. Migrant Shanghai: Studying Expatriate Communities 2. Expatriate Narratives: Belonging and Not Belonging in the Global City 3. Expatriate Geographies: From Expat Bubbles to Urban Placemaking 4. Expatriate Society: Porous Boundaries and Fragile Linkages 5. Mobile Talents: Expatriates in Transnational Fields of Work 6. Sexual Mobilities: From Self-Development to Sexual Settlement 7. Raising Cosmopolitans: Expatriate Educational Strategies 8. Rethinking Expatriate Communities in the Era of the Chinese Dream
Biography
James Farrer is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. His recent publications include Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones (2015).
"James Farrer’s acute portrait – and elegy – of colonialism and cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s expat community is a model of how to mobilise personalised narratives and everyday detailing to key into profound shifts in international relations: in this case, the balance of power between an ascendant China and "the West" written into these residents’ lives and experiences. A vital contribution to the ethnography of global cities and transnational urbanism." Adrian Favell, Chair in Sociology and Social Theory, University of Leeds, UK
"Once a nation eager to join the world system, China is now a major power that reshapes the global order. James Farrer reveals vividly how this historic shift is experienced on the ground by tracing the changing positioning of Western expatriates in Shanghai since the 1990s. Weaving structural analysis into intimate ethnography, the book is an exemplar of multi-disciplinary studies on migration, cities, and global change." Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
"An essential read for scholars of migration intrigued by global cities, transnational urbanism, integration, and a changing China. Farrer draws on extended ethnographic immersion to produce a deep and convincing analysis of the multiple social fields – community, employment, education, sexuality – through which expatriate migrants navigate integration and belonging in Shanghai." Katie Walsh, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK
"The New Shanghailanders is a carefully balanced, perceptive account of the social life of Western expatriates in Shanghai. By attending to the relational construction of transnational social, economic, cultural and sexual fields, Farrer shows how expat bubbles develop into Sinocentric cosmopolitan canopies. This is a welcome addition to the emerging scholarship on immigrant incorporation and adaptation in Asia." Brenda Yeoh, Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at th
