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Millionaire migrants : trans-Pacific life lines / David Ley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ley, David, author.
- Series:
- RBS-IBG book series.
- RBS-IBG book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elite (Social sciences)--East Asia.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Elite (Social sciences)--Canada.
- International business enterprises--East Asia.
- International business enterprises.
- International business enterprises--Canada.
- Transnationalism.
- East Asia--Emigration and immigration.
- East Asia.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Summary:
- Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and SingaporeTraces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 year periodOffers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions of neo-liberal global
- Contents:
- Millionaire Migrants:Trans-Pacific Life Lines; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Trans-Pacifi c Mobility and the New Immigration Paradigm; 2 Transition: From the Orient to the Pacifi c Rim; 3 Calculating Agents: Millionaire Migrants Meet the Canadian State; 4 Geography (still) Matters: Homo Economicus and the Business Immigration Programme; 5 Embodied Real Estate: The Cultural Mobility of Property; 6 Immigrant Reception: Contesting Globalization... or Resistant Racism?
- 7 Establishing Roots: From the Nuclear Family to Substantive Citizenship8 Roots and Routes: The Myth of Return or Transnational Circulation?; 9 Conclusion: Immigrants in Space; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612550089
- 9781444319262
- 1444319264
- 9781444399530
- 1444399535
- 9781282550087
- 128255008X
- 9781444319279
- 1444319272
- OCLC:
- 605037800
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