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Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World
Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its concomitant implications for Chinese diaspora studies internationally.
With a shifting paradigm of transnationalism and transnational migration, new patterns of Chinese mobilities have emerged that can be characterised as multiple and circular rather than unidirectional or final. This book illustrates how the analytical constructs of hypermobility, hyperdiversity and hyperconnectivity aid in the understanding of contemporary Chinese transnational diasporas. The book offers new research findings and theorisation and contributes to the existing Chinese diasporas literature and the interdisciplinary fields of ethnic, migration and mobility studies. It stimulates further research and scholarly work on the Chinese diasporas in the age of transnational migration.
This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of sociology, ethnic studies, international politics, and migration studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Introduction—Reimagining Chinese diasporas in a transnational world: toward a new research agenda
Shibao Guo
1. Southeast Asian Chinese engage a rising China: business associations, institutionalised transnationalism, and the networked state
Na Ren and Hong Liu
2. Forever foreign? Is there a future for Chinese people in Africa?
Yoon Jung Park
3. Divergent experiences and patterns of integration: contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, USA
Min Zhou and Ashelee Yue Yang
4. Riding on the waves of transformation in the Asia-Pacific: Chinese migration to Australia since the late 1980s
Jia Gao
5. A hierarchy of aspirations within a field of educational possibilities: the futures of Chinese immigrants in Luxembourg
Jinting Wu
6. Cantonese migrant networks, white supremacy, and the political utility of apologies in Canada
Henry Yu
Biography
Shibao Guo (郭世宝) is Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. He specialises in transnational migration, Chinese diasporas studies, ethnic and race relations, and comparative and international education. He is former president of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association and currently serves as co-editor of Canadian Ethnic Studies.
