Overview
- Highlights migrant identification as a unique site
- Highlights a new paradigm, namely cultural disidentification
- Studies several migrant groups and examines several countries
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration (IPMI, volume 2)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nation States, Social Networks, and Emotional Spaces
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Transnational Positions and Cultural Capital
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Transnational Positions and Cultural Capital
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Locating Transnational Identifications
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Adaptive behavior
- Burmese migrants in Chiang Mai Thailand
- Chinese migrants in Japan
- Chinese-Singaporean transmigrants
- Conversions of cultural, social and economic capital
- Cosmopolitanism
- Cultural capital
- Cultural hybridity
- Cultural identity
- Diaspora
- Filipino return migrants in the Philippines
- Hong Kong return migrants
- Immigrant family adaptation, maladaptation and poverty
- Immigrants from the People's Republic on China in Hong Kong
- Korean educational migrants in Singapore
- Migrant women
- Migration
- Minorities
- Mobility and inequality
- Multiculture
- Race and ethnicity
- Singapore
- Singaporean repeat migrants in Singapore
- Social networks and emotional spaces
- Social strain
- Third cultures
- Transnational migrant identity formation
- Transnational positionality
About this book
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?
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The anthology is mainly recommended for those having a research interest in Asia and for those who are engaged with intersectional analyses. The articles are all focusing on migration issues in a specific geographical region in Asia … . worth reading to gain an insight into and an understanding of a region which not only contains a large proportion of the world population itself but which also possesses and provokes interesting research questions as it becomes increasingly diversified and transnationalised … .” (Tobias Hübinette, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 3 (2), 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia
Editors: Caroline Plüss, Kwok-bun Chan
Series Title: International Perspectives on Migration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2966-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2965-0Published: 14 March 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9810-6Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2966-7Published: 13 March 2012
Series ISSN: 2214-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 280
Topics: Migration, Population Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality