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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? "
This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese
Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong,
London, New York, or Singapore. Pluss 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. Pluss 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.
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? "
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