Transnational Lives in Global Cities: A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030405090)

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 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.


Author: Caroline Plüss
ISBN-10: 3030405095
ISBN-13: 9783030405090
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2020
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.67d