Approaching Transnationalisms Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home
The term 'transnationalism' has gained considerable academic and popular currency despite a lack of clear definitions, in part because its overall form changes as its influence incorporates additional spheres of daily life on a variety of scales and contexts. The purpose of this volume is...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Approaching Transnationalisms
- I Constructing Transnational Societies
- 2 Transnationalism and Citizenship
- 3 The Role of New Arrivals in Hong Kong’s Economic Imaginary: Restructuring Migration Policies in the Context of Global Competition for Highly Skilled Workers
- 4 Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, and the Enclave
- 5 Change Management and Consultants: New Challenges for Small Entrepreneurs in Singapore
- II Multicultural Contacts
- 6 Recognizing Cultural Diversity and Renegotiating Civic Citizenship: Australia as an Immigrant Society at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
- 7 School of the Nation: Memory and National Identity in France
- 8 Multicultural Society and Intercultural Education: Debates in the Federal Republic of Germany
- 9 Housing Ethnicity: Multicultural Negotiation and Housing the Transnational Student
- 10 The Floating Body and the Disappearing Border: Contemporary Chinese Poetry in Exile
- III Imagimngs of Home and Community
- 11 Haitian Immigrants in the United States: the Imagining of Where ‘Home’ is in Their Transnational Social Fields
- 12 Essentializing Chinese Identity: Transnationalism and the Chinese in Europe and Southeast Asia
- 13 Architects of a Discourse: Scholars, Migrants and the Notion of Home in Vietnam
- 14 A Tale of Two Communities: Bangladeshis in Singapore
- References