Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia [Hardcover]

This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributorsall specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociologypresent new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics? rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification?

Introduction: 1: Theorizing and Proving Intersectionality in Transnational Contexts: Caroline Pl?ss and Chan Kwok-bun.- Section One: Explaining Mobility and Inequality.- 2: A Returnees Hybridity: Its Upside and Downside: Chan Kwok-bun.- 3: Theorizing Immigrant Family Adaptation, Maladaptation, and Poverty: New Arrivals in Hong Kong from Mainland China: Chan Kwok-bun.- 4: Class, Migration, and Identity in a Philippine Village: Philip Kelly.- Section Two: Nation States, Social Networks and Emotional Spaces: 5: Social Strain and the Adaptive Behavior of Hong Kong Return Migrants: Chan Kwok-bun and Chan Wai-wan.- 6: The Role of the State in Transnational Migrant Identity Formation: A Uniquely Singapore Experience?:l£N