ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author seeks to develop a 'rooted' understanding of the everyday cosmopolitan engagements conducted by migrant individuals and thus extend the focus on 'everyday' by unpacking how these migrants negotiate the relationship between their rootedness and cosmopolitan openness on a daily basis. It aims to demonstrate that interacting with cultural others and practicing cosmopolitan openness on a daily basis closely interrelates with how migrants cope with and perceive sense of rootedness at the level of both the everyday and the transnational. The chapter points to the rootedness developed towards both China (including the Chinese community and Chinese culture) and New Zealand (including its ideas, places and peoples) and analysed how rootedness closely interrelates with the development and enactment of cosmopolitan openness in daily life. It examines the emergence and absence of and the opportunities for and barriers to performing cosmopolitanism at the everyday level, and analyses how these cosmopolitan engagements are interrelated with people's rootedness.
