ABSTRACT
In her book Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Aihwa Ong writes:
For over a century, overseas Chinese have been the forerunners of today’s multiply displaced subjects, who are always on the move both mentally and physically ...[and whose] very flexibility in geographical and social positioning is itself an effect of novel articulations between the regimes of the family, the state, and capital, the kinds of practical-technical adjustments that have implications for our understanding of the late modern subject.
(1999: 2—3)