Seeing transnationally : how Chinese migrants make their dreams come true / Li Minghuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minghuan, Li.

Series:

Series of global migration and China

The series of global Migration and China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Foreign countries.

Chinese.

China--Emigration and immigration.

China.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

HangZhou, China : Zhejiang University Press ; Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This collection of essays by Li Minghuan, an early new migrant-scholar herself, documents the extraordinary story of Chinese transnational migration. The book represents over two decades of untiring empirical field research, going where the migrants go - the Netherlands, France, Canada - and where they come from - Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Mingxi in Fujian - in order to observe, and to listen, with an unwaveringly sympathetic eye and ear, to what they, their families, their neighbours, their brokers, and their local officials have to say. Coupled with the historian's craft of painstaking archival research, these village and community case studies not only cover an astounding geographical orbit of sending and receiving areas, but also a broad diversity and range of migrant types and situations both historical and contemporary, from illegal and refugee migration, to official labor export, to the migration of students and professionals.

Contents:

Part I Empirical Studies from Sites of Origin

1 "To Get Rich Quickly in Europe!" Reflections on the Motivations For Transnational Migration in Wenzhou 9

2 Qiaoxiang in Wenzhou Revisited: Understanding Village Loyalty in the Age of Globalization 25

3 Transforming Contingency into Meaning: An Emergent Qiaoxiang in South China 31

4 Making a Living at the Interface of Legality and Illegality: Chinese Migrant Workers in Israel 49

5 Playing Edge Ball: Transnational Migration Brokerage in China 69

6 Collective Symbols and Individual Options: Life on a State Farm for Returned Overseas Chinese after Decollectivization 91

Part II Empirical Studies from Sites of Destination

7 Formalizing the Transnational Network: A Study on European-wide Chinese Voluntary Associations 111

8 Making a Living in an Affluent World: Chinese Immigrants in Europe 133

9 Living between Three Walls? The Peranakan Chinese in the Netherlands 143

10 A Group in Transition: Chinese Students and Scholars in the Netherlands 159

11 Everybody Acts Independently: A Study of the Refugee Determination Process in British Columbia, Canada 175

12 The Chinese in Europe: Population, Economy and Links with Qiaoxiang in the Early 21st-century 183

Part III Learning from Archives and Literature

13 Dezelfde hè? "The Dutch Are the European Chinese" -Reflections 205

14 Understanding the Tandjoeng Cemetery Archives: Chinese Society in 19th-century Batavia 221

15 From "Sons of the Yellow Emperor" to "Children of Indonesian Soil": Exploring 19th-century Chinese Society Based on the Batavia Kong Koan Archives 243.

ISBN:

9058679012

9789058679017

OCLC:

833403729

Publisher Number:

99958838430