Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

2012-03-14 Social Science

Author : Caroline Plüss
Release : 2012-03-14
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia written by Caroline Plüss. This book was released on 2012-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology—present new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants’ performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification?

Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

2012-03-13 Social Science

Author : Caroline Plüss
Release : 2012-03-13
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 669/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia by : Caroline Plüss

Download or read book Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia written by Caroline Plüss. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology—present new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants’ performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification?

Transnational Lives in Global Cities

2018-12-21 Social Science

Author : Caroline Plüss
Release : 2018-12-21
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 317/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Transnational Lives in Global Cities by : Caroline Plüss

Download or read book Transnational Lives in Global Cities written by Caroline Plüss. This book was released on 2018-12-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore. Plüss argues that these middle-class, well-educated, and often highly skilled migrants mostly experienced a sense of dis-embeddedness, and not cosmopolitanism, or hybridity, in their transnational lives. The author’s multi-sited study intersects the Chinese Singaporeans’ highly varied perceptions of these global cities and their biographies to show that these migrants—who often were repeat migrants—foremost experienced ruptures and disjuncture in their education, work, family, and/or friendships/lifestyle contexts. Transnational (dis)embeddedness is explained in terms of the Chinese Singaporeans’ access to resources and their views of self, others, places, and societies. Plüss recommends that research on these migrants should more fully account for the complexities of transnational processes, and contributes with such a knowledge to the scholarship on transnationalism, migration, race and ethnicity, and migrant non-integration.

Handbook on Gender in Asia

2020-07-31 Social Science

Author : Shirlena Huang
Release : 2020-07-31
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 911/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Handbook on Gender in Asia written by Shirlena Huang. This book was released on 2020-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook on Gender in Asia critically examines, through a gender perspective, five broad themes of significance to Asia: the ‘Theory and Practice’ of researching in Asia; ‘Gender, Ageing and Health’; ‘Gender and Labour’; ‘Gendered Migrations and Mobilities’; and ‘Gender at the Margins’. With each chapter providing an overview of the key intellectual developments on the issue under discussion, as well as empirical examples to examine how the Asian case sheds light on these debates, this collection will be an invaluable reference for scholars of gender and Asia.

Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific

2018-08-15 Social Science

Author : Catherine Gomes
Release : 2018-08-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 546/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific written by Catherine Gomes. This book was released on 2018-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work on the various ways in which internet communication technologies (ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows for various forms of connectivity between individuals and groups in this age of hyper (transnational) mobility, there is a scarcity on the way digital media presents challenges, creates agency and alters relationships within the broad umbrella of the transnational migration experience. The authors in this collection– who come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds across social, cultural, education and communication research – present cutting edge cross and trans disciplinary analyses of transnational migration where digital media becomes a creative, if not fundamental avenue, for migrants to develop new strategies for dealing with their cross-border mobilities.

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