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Plüss, Caroline. Transnational Lives in Global Cities - A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
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Caroline Plüss

Transnational Lives in Global Cities

A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants
  • Springer International Publishing
  • 2019
  • Gebunden
  • 320 Seiten
  • ISBN 9783319963303

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

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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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