Return : Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia / Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Mika Toyota.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biao, Xiang, editor.

Yeoh, Brenda S. A., editor.

Toyota, Mika, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-term contracts, and highly skilled émigrés, the contributors argue that the figure of the returnee energizes and redefines nationalism in an era of increasingly fluid and indeterminate national sovereignty. They acknowledge the diversity, complexity, and instability of reverse migration, while emphasizing its discursive, policy, and political significance at a moment when the tensions between state power and transnational subjects are particularly visible. Taken together, the essays foreground Asia as a useful site for rethinking the intersections of migration, sovereignty, and nationalism. Contributors. Sylvia Cowan, Johan Lindquist, Melody Chia-wen Lu, Koji Sasaki, Shin Hyunjoon, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Mika Toyota, Carol Upadhya, Wang Cangbai, Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Return and the Reordering of Transnational Mobility in Asia / Xiang Biao

Chapter One To Return or Not to Return / Koji Sasaki

Chapter Two Soldier's Home / Mariko Asano Tamanoi

Chapter Three Guiqiao as Political Subjects in the Making of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 / Wang Cangbai

Chapter Four Transnational Encapsulation / Xiang Biao

Chapter Five Cambodians Go "Home" / Sylvia R. Cowan

Chapter Six Rescue, Return, in Place / Johan Lindquist

Chapter Seven Return of the Global Indian / Carol Upadhya

Chapter Eight Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing / Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Shin Hyunjoon

Contributors

References

Index

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478090984

1478090987

OCLC:

1250407901