Transnational Lives in Global Cities

A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-96330-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plüss, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Analyzing Transnational Lives.- 2: (Dis-)embeddedness in Transnational Spaces.- 3: ‘Chinese’ Transnational Experiences in Hong Kong.- 4: ‘Incongruous’ Transnational Lives in London.- 5: ‘Cosmopolitan’ Transnational Living in New York.- 6: Gendered Transnational Experiences ‘Back’ in Singapore.- 7: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

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