ABSTRACT

With the rapid economic development of China and the overall shift in the global political economy, there is now the emergence of new Chinese on the move. These new Chinese migrants and diasporas are pioneers in the establishment of multiple homes in new geographical locations, the development of new (global and hybrid) Chinese identities, and the creation of new (political, economic and social) inspirations through their mobile lives.

This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Chinese migration since the 1980s. It provides updated trends of migration movements of the Chinese, including their emergent geographies. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new waves of Chinese migration, this volume offers novel insights to enrich our understanding of Asian mobility in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The book will be of interest to academics examining migration, mobility, diaspora, Chinese identity, overseas Chinese studies and Asian diaspora studies.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

New Chinese migrations 1

part I|75 pages

New migrants from mainland China

chapter 1|18 pages

From Chinatown to China’s town?

The newest Chinese diaspora and the transformation of Sydney’s Chinatown

chapter 2|15 pages

The new Chinese immigrants in Japan

Locating belonging in an ethno-national society

chapter 3|20 pages

New Chinese migrants from China to New Zealand

Pathways, mobility, multigenerational families and policy implications

chapter 4|10 pages

Realising ‘Chinese Dream’

Chinese migrants in West Africa

chapter 5|10 pages

Transnational circuit and Yemen–China migrations

An emerging China–Arab connection 1

part II|61 pages

The HK–Taiwan–China migration triangle

chapter 6|15 pages

The paradox between deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation

Student migration across the Taiwan Strait 1

chapter 7|16 pages

Intra-Asian infrastructures of Chinese birth tourism

Agencies’ operations in China and Taiwan 1

chapter 8|16 pages

Life ‘offshored’

New migrations to Taiwan from post-1997 Hong Kong

chapter 9|12 pages

Beipiao and gangpiao

Young Chinese migrants’ drifting experiences in Beijing and Hong Kong 1

part III|51 pages

The ongoing migration of Chinese overseas from Southeast Asia

chapter 10|15 pages

Why stay?

Comparing Malaysian Chinese skilled migrants in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore

chapter 12|17 pages

Immigration and shifting conceptions of citizenship

The case of stateless Chinese-Bruneians in Canada 1

part IV|13 pages

Conclusion

chapter 13|11 pages

New directions for overseas Chinese and migration studies

Migrants, state–diaspora relations and transborder governance 1