Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

Citizens in Motion

Emigration, Immigration, and Re-Migration Across China's Borders

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that analyzing emigration, immigration, and re-migration under the framework of contemporaneous migration directs attention to the citizenship formations that are forged across migration sites, shaping the lives of citizens in motion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781503606661
• ISBN-10: 150360666X
• Artikelnr.: 50910156

Autorenporträt

Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
1Migration and Citizenship
chapter abstract
This chapter considers the way that multidirectional migration flows are
transforming national citizenship and its territorial premises. Eschewing
the tendency to study emigration and immigration as discrete fields, it
proposes an approach that brings together seemingly distinct emigration,
immigration, and re-migration trends under an analytical framework known as
contemporaneous migration. This approach illuminates how citizenship
formations in different national contexts are increasingly drawn into a
constellation of relations, situating the migration and citizenship
politics of national societies in a trans-territorial context. The chapter
contextualizes developments in Chinese emigration and immigration to China
in wider theoretical debates on emigration and diaspora, citizenship and
territory, immigrant integration and re-migration, and ethnicity and
co-ethnicity. It signals the multifaceted aspects of migration that
interconnect China with migration sites globally, changing citizenship
norms and practices.
2Chinese Re-migration
chapter abstract
Counter-diasporic migration, or the return of diasporic descendants to an
ancestral land, has become a global trend. This chapter troubles linear
narratives of emigration and immigration by examining the re-migration of
diasporic descendants, focusing on Chinese diasporic descendants in Malaya,
Indonesia, and Vietnam who were compelled to leave due to persecution
between 1949 and 1979, a period of the inauguration of communist rule in
China. The Chinese state resettled the refugees in state-owned farms and
labeled them as "returnees," legitimizing its reach toward the diaspora.
But the social realities they experienced expose contestations over
presumed kinship and co-ethnicity. After 1978 China's diaspora strategizing
shifted from privileging co-ethnicity to encouraging foreign investment and
skills transfer to benefit national development. This discussion
foregrounds how citizenship formations in China were intimately connected
to the experiences of the Chinese abroad and those who re-migrated to the
ancestral land.
3Citizenship Across the Life Course
chapter abstract
Analyzing emigration, immigration, and re-migration concurrently, under the
framework of contemporaneous migration, directs us toward evaluating what
it means to stake claims to different components of citizenship in more
than one political community across a migrant's life course. This chapter
examines the way the Mainland Chinese migrants negotiate social
reproduction concerns that extend across international borders, their
multiple national affiliations, and aspirations for recognition and rights
as they journey between China and Canada across the life course. Patterns
of re-migration are transforming the social relations of citizenship,
re-spatializing rights, obligations, and belonging. Source and destination
countries are also reversed during repeated re-migration or transnational
sojourning. Transnational sojourning forges citizenship constellations that
interlink how migrants understand and experience citizenship across
different migration sites.
4Multiple Diasporas
chapter abstract
This chapter examines how fraternity and alterity operate in contradictory
ways under conditions of contemporaneous migration. While fraternity
connotes membership in a national community, alterity refers to the state
of being different or the process of "Othering." The chapter focuses on
Singapore as a hub, where concurrent immigration and emigration flows are
creating new postcolonial nation-building challenges. Contemporary
immigration from China is juxtaposed against past migration from the same
ancestral land, generating both co-ethnic and inter-ethnic tensions in a
multicultural society. With growing numbers of Singaporeans now moving
abroad, Singapore has also become a country that seeks to assert an
extraterritorial reach over its emigrants. The multidirectional migration
flows evinced in Singapore exemplify how states and national societies
invoke temporal framings to prioritize natal ties that are based on
selected versions of territorial belonging, memory, and culture.
5China at Home and Abroad
chapter abstract
Studying the interface of distinct yet interrelated migration trends
through the framework of contemporaneous migration allows us to
conceptualize both inter-ethnic and co-ethnic relations in culturally
diverse societies. The Chinese worldview of tianxia informs understanding
of the multidirectional migration patterns that reflect and impact China's
domestic management of ethnic diversity and its external relations. This
chapter argues that contemporaneous migration further illuminates three
dimensions of alterity, namely alterity as phenotypical difference, as the
diversification of co-ethnicity, and as spatial recalibration. It
interfaces African immigration to China with the re-migration of Chinese
diasporic descendants to the ancestral land, and the emigration of ethnic
minorities in China. Such an analytical approach reveals how fraternity and
alterity operate within and across ethnic categories in transnational
contexts.
6Contemporaneous Migration
chapter abstract
This chapter shows how the analytical framework of contemporaneous
migration allows an examination of citizenship constellations that are
forged across migration sites. It draws together key themes that emerge
from this approach, namely on citizenship and territory, fraternity and
alterity, and the co-constitution of time and space. The chapter further
signals the new research directions that contemporaneous migration brings
to overseas Chinese studies or research on the "Chinese diaspora," and to
the Chinese worldview of tianxia in relation to notions of cosmopolitanism.
It also sets out the methods through which contemporaneous migration can be
studied.