Millionaire Migrants Trans-Pacific Life Lines

by Ley, David

• ISBN13: 9781405192910
• ISBN10: 1405192917
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book provides an examination of the wealthy migrants who left East Asia, notably Hong Kong and Taiwan, and migrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s. Through extensive interviewing and access to databases in Canada and Hong Kong over a 15 year period, Ley traces their migration career, from pre-migration, to arrival in Canada, to housing and business experiences in Vancouver, and for many, the continuing circular migration across the Pacific.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vi
List of Tables	p. viii
Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: Trans-Pacific Mobility and the New Immigration Paradigm	p. 1
Transition: From the Orient to the Pacific Rim	p. 32
Calculating Agents: Millionaire Migrants Meet the Canadian State	p. 66
Geography (still) Matters: Homo Economicus and the Business Immigration Programme	p. 98
Embodied Real Estate: The Cultural Mobility of Property	p. 126
Immigrant Reception: Contesting Globalization... or Resistant Racism?	p. 162
Establishing Roots: From the Nuclear Family to Substantive Citizenship	p. 196
Roots and Routes: The Myth of Return or Transnational Circulation?	p. 225
Conclusion: Immigrants in Space	p. 250
Notes	p. 260
References	p. 278
Index	p. 309
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