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

by Willis,Katie; Willis,Katie

• ISBN13: 9780415302791
• ISBN10: 041530279X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134414086
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-09
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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