Approaching Transnationalisms

by Yeoh, Brenda S. A.; Charney, Michael W.; Tong, Chee Kiong

• ISBN13: 9781402074479
• ISBN10: 1402074476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The term 'transnationalism' has gained considerable academic and popular currency despite a lack of clear definitions, in part because its overall form changes as its influence incorporates additional spheres of daily life on a variety of scales and contexts. The purpose of this volume is to bring together different perspectives on this phenomenon, using case studies that represent some of the most current thinking on 'transnationalism' in a wide range of disciplines. Central themes which this book explores include legal and economic reactions to transnational migration; the (re)negotiation of identities in the context of changing national, social and cultural identities; and the emergence of new imaginings of home and social space in transnational communities. Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts and Imaginings of Home foregrounds powerful transnational forces crossing the boundaries of nation-states, and at the same time, gives attention to the continued significance of the nation-state and the diversity of localized reactions to transnational challenges.

Table of Contents

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements

Approaching Transnationalisms

Constructing Transnational Societies

Transnationalism and Citizenship

The Role of New Arrivals in Hong Kong's Economic Imaginary: Restructuring Migration Policies in the Context of Global Competition for Highly Skilled Workers

Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, and the Enclave

Change Management and Consultants: New Challenges for Small Entrepreneurs in Singapore

Multicultural Contacts

Recognizing Cultural Diversity and Renegotiating Civic Citizenship: Australia as an Immigrant Society at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century

School of the Nation: Memory and National Identity in France

Multicultural Society and Intercultural Education: Debates in the Federal Republic of Germany

Housing Ethnicity: Multicultural Negotiation and Housing the Transnational Student

The Floating Body and the Disappearing Border: Contemporary Chinese Poetry in Exile

Imaginings Of Home And Community

Haitian Immigrants in the United States: the Imagining of Where 'Home' is in Their Transnational Social Fields

Essentializing Chinese Identity: Transnationalism and the Chinese in Europe and Southeast Asia

Architects of a Discourse: Scholars, Migrants and the Notion of Home in Vietnam

A Tale of Two Communities: Bangladeshis in Singapore

References

Index

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