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International Migrants in China's Global City - The New Shanghailanders (Hardcover)
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International Migrants in China's Global City - The New Shanghailanders (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Series on Asian Migration
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Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant
destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly
900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international
migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is
China's most globalized city and has attracted a full quarter of
Mainland China's foreign resident population. This book analyzes
the development of Shanghai's expatriate communities, from their
role in the opening up of Shanghai to foreign investment in the
early 1980s through to the explosive growth after China joined the
World Trade Organization in 2000. Based on over 400 interviews and
20 years of ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, it argues that
international migrants play an important qualitative role in urban
life. It explains the lifestyles of Shanghai's skilled migrants;
their positions in economic, social, sexual and cultural fields;
their strategies for integration into Chinese society; their
contributions to a cosmopolitan urban geography; and their changing
symbolic and social significance for Shanghai as a global city. In
so doing, it seeks to deal with the following questions: how have a
generation of migrants made Shanghai into a cosmopolitan hometown,
what role have they played in making Shanghai a global city, and
how do foreign residents now fit into the nationalistic narrative
of the China Dream? Addressing a gap in the market of critical
expatriate studies through its focus on China, this book will be of
interest to academics in the field of international migration,
skilled migration, expatriates, urban studies, urban sociology,
sexuality and gender studies, international education, and China
studies.
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