Brenda S. A. Yeoh / Katie Willis (eds.)

State/Nation/Transnation

Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific
Herausgeber: Willis, Katie; Yeoh, Brenda S A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415302791
• ISBN-10: 041530279X
• Artikelnr.: 35729989

Autorenporträt

Katie Willis, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Transnationalism as a Challenge to the Nation 2. The Myth
of the Controllability of Difference: Labour Migration, Transnational
Communities and State Strategies in the Asia-Pacific Region 3. Speres of
Speculation and Middling Transnational Migrants: Chinese-Indonesians in the
Asia-Pacific 4. Citizenship and Differential Exclusion of Immigrants in
Japan 5. Is there a Transnation? Migrancy and the National Homeland among
Overseas Filipinos 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 7. From Nation to Networks and Back Again:
Transnationalism, Class and National Identity in Malaysia 8. Indian
Information Technology Professionals' World System: The Nation and the
Transnation in Individuals' Migration Strategies 9. Beyond Transnational
Nationalism: Questioning Chinese Diaspora's Borders in the Global City 10.
Democracy, Culture and the Politics of Gate-Keeping in Cambodia: The
Transnation Goes Home 11. Internal Transnationalism and the Formation of
the Vietamese Diaspora 12. Shifting the Axis: Feminism and the
Transnational Imaginary