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9780415302791

State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415302791

  • ISBN10:

    041530279X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-04-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This edited volume examines the relationship between the nation and the transnation, focusing on transnational communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations xi
Notes on contributors xii
Preface xvi
Acknowledgements xvii
1 Introduction: transnationalism as a challenge to the nation
1(15)
KATIE WILLIS, BRENDA S.A. YEOH AND S.M. ABDUL KHADER FAKHRI
2 The myth of the controllability of difference: labour migration, transnational communities and state strategies in the Asia-Pacific region
16(21)
STEPHEN CASTLES
3 Spheres of speculation and middling transnational migrants: Chinese Indonesians in the Asia-Pacific
37(30)
DONALD M. NONINI
4 Citizenship and differential exclusion of immigrants in Japan
67(26)
KEIKO YAMANAKA
5 Is there a transnation? Migrancy and the national homeland among overseas Filipinos
93(27)
FILOMENO V. AGUILAR JR
6 Expatriating is patriotic? The discourse on 'new migrants' in the People's Republic of China and identity construction among recent migrants from the PRC
120(24)
PÁL NYIRI
7 From nation to networks and back again: transnationalism, class and national identity in Malaysia
144(17)
TIM BUNNELL
8 Indian information technology professionals' world system: the nation and the transnation in individuals' migration strategies
161(18)
XIANG BIRO
9 Beyond transnational nationalism: questioning the borders of the Chinese diaspora in the global city
179(18)
IEN ANG
10 Democracy, culture and the politics of gate-keeping in Cambodia: the transnation goes home 197(21)
CAROLINE HUGHES
11 Internal transnationalism and the formation of the Vietnamese diaspora 218(20)
ANDREW HARDY
12 Shifting the axis: feminism and the transnational imaginary 238(19)
VERA MACKIE
Index 257

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