202 Pages
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Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
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Routledge
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As our increasingly globalized world alters the dynamics of migration, the ideas that migrants have about returning to their home countries have evolved as well. This diverse collection examines the changes and complexities of migration patterns in a range of Asian countries and cities, exploring how globalization and transnationalism shape and give meaning to the migrant experience. From... Read more
1. Baas, Michiel: Introduction. Revisiting the Myth of Return in an Age of Transnationalism. Emotions, Rationale and In-between Spaces. 2. LeBaron van Baeyer, Sara: Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia: Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multi-Generational Meanings of Return. 3. Baas, Michiel: The Freedom to Stay & Leave: Indian Overseas Students' Paradoxical Relationship with Australian 'Permanent' Residency. 4. Bhatt, Amy. Reproducing Intimacies and Transnational Family Formations among highly skilled migrants from India. 5. Nititham, Diane: 'It's Still Home Home': Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland. 6. Nguyen, Cindy: Finding and Defining Social Purpose: Representations of Vietnamese Student Migration to the Colonial Metrople, 1910-1933 7. Kaibara, Helen: Looking Back to Move Forward: Japanese Elites and the Prominence of Home in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924. 8. Koh, Kris: The Lost Generation - Return of Second Generation Vi?t Ki?u to Sài Gòn. 9. Sahoo, Ajaya K. Migration, Return and Coping Patterns: A Study of Gulf Returnees in Andhra Pradesh, India. 10. Anwar, Nausheen. The Bengali can return to his desh but the Burmi can't because he has no desh: Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants in Karachi, Pakistan.
Biography
Michiel Baas is a research fellow with the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
