Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration, and Re-migration Across China's Borders
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Abstract
This book argues that analyzing emigration, immigration, and re-migration under the framework of contemporaneous migration directs attention to the citizenship formations that interconnect migration sites, shaping the lives of citizens in motion. It departs from conventional approaches that study migration sites in isolation or as snapshots in time. Taking Chinese emigration as the starting point, the analysis becomes deepened by incorporating insights from migrant-receiving countries, namely Canada and Singapore, which are facing new emigration or re-migration trends among their own citizens. ... More
This book argues that analyzing emigration, immigration, and re-migration under the framework of contemporaneous migration directs attention to the citizenship formations that interconnect migration sites, shaping the lives of citizens in motion. It departs from conventional approaches that study migration sites in isolation or as snapshots in time. Taking Chinese emigration as the starting point, the analysis becomes deepened by incorporating insights from migrant-receiving countries, namely Canada and Singapore, which are facing new emigration or re-migration trends among their own citizens. By analyzing shifts in migration patterns over time, we also come to understand how China is becoming an immigration country. The arguments offer new insights for researchers studying Chinese migration and diaspora. As an analytical approach, contemporaneous migration contributes to our theorization of citizenship and territory, fraternity and alterity, ethnicity, and the co-constitution of time and space.
Keywords:
alterity,
Chinese diaspora,
co-ethnics,
diaspora strategies,
diasporic descendants,
extraterritorial citizenship,
migrant integration,
life course,
migration and diversity,
migration and temporality,
transnational migration
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781503606661 |
Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: May 2019 |
DOI:10.11126/stanford/9781503606661.001.0001 |