The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Yeoh, Brenda; Huang, Shirlena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how transnational 'talents' negotiate the world as embodied bearers of culture, ethnicity, class and gender, as much as patrons of economic rationalities and corporate logics. By detailing how their transnational migrations entail navigation through uneven, sometimes challenging terrains and local structures, new questions about cosmopolitanisms, the global city, and senses of belonging in a mobile world are explored through the lens of everyday encounters.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135713355
• Artikelnr.: 57101282

Autorenporträt

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at NUS' Asia Research Institute. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities; and gender and transnational migration in Asia. Shirlena Huang is Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on gender and migration (particularly within the Asia-Pacific region) in the contexts of carework, transnational families and religion, as well as urbanization and heritage conservation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration Brenda S. A.
Yeoh and Shirlena Huang 2. Cosmopolitanism at Work: Labour Market Exclusion
in Singapore's Financial Sector Junjia Ye and Philip F. Kelly 3. Servicing
British Expatriate "Talent" in Singapore: Exploring Ordinary
Transnationalism and the Role of the Expatriate Club Jonathan V.
Beaverstock 4. Identity Politics and Cultural Asymmetries: Singaporean
Transmigrants 'Fashioning' Cosmopolitanism Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho 5. Singaporean
and British Transmigrants in China and the Cultural Politics of 'Contact
Zones' Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie Willis 6. Global Nightscapes in Shanghai
as Ethnosexual Contact Zones James Farrer 7. Shanghai Rush: Skilled
Migrants in a Fantasy City Yen-Fen Tseng 8. Making Careers in the
Occupational Niche: Chinese Students in Corporate Japan's Transnational
Business Gracia Liu-Farrer 9. 'The Moon Back Home is Brighter'?: Return
Migration and the Cultural Politics of Belonging Sin YihTeo 10. A Ritual
Economy of 'Talent': China and Overseas Chinese Professionals Xiang Biao