Trans-Pacific mobilities : the Chinese and Canada / / edited by Lloyd L. Wong

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver ; ; Toronto : , : UBC Press, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 305.8951071
• Soggetto topico: Chinese - Canada - Ethnic identity; Immigrants - Canada; Chinese - Canada; Chinese - Migrations; Transnationalism
• Soggetto geografico: China Emigration and immigration; Canada Emigration and immigration
• Classificazione: LB 56605
• Persona (resp. second.): WongLloyd L <1950-> (Lloyd Lee)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Cantonese Pacific : migration networks across space and time / Henry Yu and Stephanie Chan -- Transnational mobilities in Canadian Chinatowns / David Chuenyan Lai -- Heeding the phoenix pen : trans-Pacific scriptures from Lü Dongbin / Paul Crowe -- Mandarin profile : Chinese-language television and geo-ethnic storytelling / Shuyu Kong -- Media representations of investment and labour in Alberta's resource economy / Marcella Sisqueira Cassiano, Sara Dorow, and Heather Schmidt -- New immigrants from China to Canada, 1980-2009 : migration patterns and economic performance / Eva Xiaoling Li and Peter S. Li -- Economic mobilities of highly skilled China-born migrants in Canada and the United States / Lucia Lo, Shaolu Yu, and Wei Li -- Chinese techno-immigrants in Western Canada / Karl Froschauer and Lloyd L. Wong -- Canadian immigration policy and Chinese students : transitioning to permanent residency / Yixi Lu and Li Zong -- Locational dispersion of family members : Chinese in Toronto / Eric Fong and Jenny Li -- Gendered practices of middle-class Chinese immigrant women professionals / Guida Man and Elena Chou -- Bringing transnationalism home : mobility and locality in China-Canada adoption / Sara Dorow -- Exploring transnational identities of Chinese Immigrant children in Canada / Yan Zhang and Yan Guo -- Double diaspora : the experience of Chinese Canadians in Beijing / Shibao Guo -- The practice of transnationalism in Pacific mall : Chinese Canadian experience / Ho Hon Leung -- Chinatown unbound / Kay Anderson.
• Sommario/riassunto: "With the population of Chinese living outside of its borders expected to reach 52 million by 2030, China has one of the most mobile populations on earth, shaping economies, cultures, and politics throughout Asia, the Americas, and the South Pacific. As China's international influence continues to grow, Trans-Pacific Mobilities charts how the cross-border movement of Chinese people, goods, and images affects notions of place, belonging, and identity, particularly in Canada. Three waves of Chinese migration to Canada--labour migration, the exodus from Hong Kong prior to the 1997 handover, and the current swell of moneyed immigration from Mainland China--have resulted in 1.5 million inhabitants of Chinese descent, and Canada is currently the second most popular destination for Chinese settlement. The interdisciplinary cast of contributors to this volume draws on the new mobilities paradigm to explore this massive movement of people through five lenses, charting historic, cultural and symbolic, highly skilled, family and gendered, and transnational Chinese mobilities. As Canada's policy of multiculturalism continues to shape the nation's politics, this timely volume is an invaluable resource for those interested in historical and contemporary Chinese mobilities and related issues of immigration, ethnicity, and transnationalism."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Trans-Pacific mobilities
• ISBN: 0-7748-3381-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164935903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II