International Migrants in China''s Global City - The New Shanghailanders

List of contents

1. Migrant Shanghai: Studying Expatriate Communities 2. Expatriate Narratives: Belonging and Not Belonging in the Global City 3. Expatriate Geographies: From Expat Bubbles to Urban Placemaking 4. Expatriate Society: Porous Boundaries and Fragile Linkages 5. Mobile Talents: Expatriates in Transnational Fields of Work 6. Sexual Mobilities: From Self-Development to Sexual Settlement 7. Raising Cosmopolitans: Expatriate Educational Strategies 8. Rethinking Expatriate Communities in the Era of the Chinese Dream

About the author

James Farrer is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. His recent publications include Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones (2015).

Summary

China has now become as migrant destination, and Shanghai is China’s most globalized city. This book covers the development of Shanghai’s expatriate communities, from their role in the opening up of Shanghai to foreign investment in the early 1980s through tothe explosive growth after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2000.

Product details

• Authors: James Farrer, Farrer James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367662899
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66289-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Series on Asian Migration
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General