Millionaire migrants : trans-Pacific life lines
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Millionaire migrants : trans-Pacific life lines
（RGS-IBG book series）
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
- : hardcover
Available at / 5 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-308) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.
An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and Singapore
Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 year period
Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions of neo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography into transnational theory
Table of Contents
List of Figures. List of Tables.
Series Editors' Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction: Trans-Pacific Mobility and the New Immigration Paradigm.
2 Transition: From the Orient to the Pacifi c Rim.
3 Calculating Agents: Millionaire Migrants Meet the Canadian State.
4 Geography (still) Matters: Homo Economicus and the Business Immigration Programme.
5 Embodied Real Estate: The Cultural Mobility of Property.
6 Immigrant Reception: Contesting Globalization... or Resistant Racism?
7 Establishing Roots: From the Nuclear Family to Substantive Citizenship.
8 Roots and Routes: The Myth of Return or Transnational Circulation?
9 Conclusion: Immigrants in Space.
Notes.
References.
Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"