ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that these desirable migrants do not necessarily achieve 'desirable' settlement outcomes in their host society, financially, socially, or emotionally. It explores how these relatively 'undesirable' settlement outcomes of new Chinese migrants are interrelated with their intercultural encounter patterns, identity dynamics, interplay between rootedness and openness and, most important, their ability to conduct cosmopolitanism in order to negotiate difference. The book takes a refined version of the concept that transcends its normative or philosophical dimension and focuses on everyday intercultural practices of individual migrants who negotiate the interplay between their rootedness and cosmopolitan openness. It examines how everyday cosmopolitanism has emerged and has been conducted in the context of migration.
