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Transnational Lives in Global Cities

Download or Read eBook Transnational Lives in Global Cities PDF written by Caroline Plüss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Transnational Lives in Global Cities
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Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9783319963310
ISBN-13 : 3319963317
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Book Synopsis Transnational Lives in Global Cities by : Caroline Plüss

Book excerpt: This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore. Plüss argues that these middle-class, well-educated, and often highly skilled migrants mostly experienced a sense of dis-embeddedness, and not cosmopolitanism, or hybridity, in their transnational lives. The author’s multi-sited study intersects the Chinese Singaporeans’ highly varied perceptions of these global cities and their biographies to show that these migrants—who often were repeat migrants—foremost experienced ruptures and disjuncture in their education, work, family, and/or friendships/lifestyle contexts. Transnational (dis)embeddedness is explained in terms of the Chinese Singaporeans’ access to resources and their views of self, others, places, and societies. Plüss recommends that research on these migrants should more fully account for the complexities of transnational processes, and contributes with such a knowledge to the scholarship on transnationalism, migration, race and ethnicity, and migrant non-integration.


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