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Transnational Lives in Global Cities

A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants

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Authors:
  1. Caroline Plüss

    1. University of Liverpool, Singapore, Singapore

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  • Presents a new, and cutting-edge, analytical framework in order to account for the variety, and complexity, of the processes of transnationalization
  • Accounts for new forms of processes of transnationalization, and inequalities, by presenting and applying a new analytical framework to account for the Chinese Singaporeans’ (dis-)embeddeness
  • Contributes to the scholarship of globalization, transnationalization, migration, and race and ethnicity

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Accounting for Transnational Lives

    • Caroline Plüss
    Pages 1-30

  3. (Dis)Embeddedness in Transnational Contexts

    • Caroline Plüss
    Pages 31-61

  4. Being Chinese in a Chinese Global City: Hong Kong

    • Caroline Plüss
    Pages 63-93

  5. In the East and in the West: London

    • Caroline Plüss
    Pages 95-134

  6. Incongruous Transnational Lives: New York

    • Caroline Plüss
    Pages 135-173

  7. Gendered Transnationalism: Singapore

    • Caroline Plüss
    Pages 175-236

  8. Conclusions

    • Caroline Plüss
    Pages 237-295

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 297-304
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About this book

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.

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“Transnational Lives in Global Cities offers a timely and much-needed multi-sited analysis of the lived experience of transnational migrants in global cities. … With transnational migrants disproportionately moving to global cities and contributing to these cities’ globality, the knowledge produced in this book will undoubtedly be relevant for scholars within, and well beyond, migration, transnationalism, and urban studies.” (Yeo Si Jie Ivin, International Migration Review, April 8, 2020)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, Singapore, Singapore

    Caroline Plüss

About the author

Caroline Plüss is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, Singapore. 

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