Ley Millionaire Migrants

Trans-Pacific Life Lines
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1927-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range ofdatabases, this is an examination of the migration career ofwealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada,Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and1990s.
* An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of researchin Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparativevisits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and Singapore
* Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 yearperiod
* Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions ofneo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography intotransnational theory

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ley, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Series Editors' Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction: Trans-Pacific Mobility and the New ImmigrationParadigm.
2 Transition: From the Orient to the Pacifi c Rim.
3 Calculating Agents: Millionaire Migrants Meet the CanadianState.
4 Geography (still) Matters: Homo Economicus and theBusiness Immigration Programme.
5 Embodied Real Estate: The Cultural Mobility of Property.
6 Immigrant Reception: Contesting Globalization... orResistant Racism?
7 Establishing Roots: From the Nuclear Family to SubstantiveCitizenship.
8 Roots and Routes: The Myth of Return or TransnationalCirculation?
9 Conclusion: Immigrants in Space.
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Ley is Canada Research Chair of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His research examines the social geography of gateway cities, including relations between immigration and urbanisation, and gentrification and housing markets. He is the author of The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City (1996), and A Social Geography of the City (1983), co-author of Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State (1994), and co-editor of Place/Culture/Representation (1993). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Pierre Trudeau Foundation.