James Farrer

International Migrants in China's Global City

The New Shanghailanders

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Produktbeschreibung

China has now become as migrant destination, and Shanghai is China's most globalized city. This book covers the development of Shanghai's expatriate communities, from their role in the opening up of Shanghai to foreign investment in the early 1980s through tothe explosive growth after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2000.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780815382638
• ISBN-10: 0815382634
• Artikelnr.: 55044579

Autorenporträt

James Farrer is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. His recent publications include Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Migrant Shanghai: Studying Expatriate Communities 2. Expatriate
Narratives: Belonging and Not Belonging in the Global City 3. Expatriate
Geographies: From Expat Bubbles to Urban Placemaking 4. Expatriate Society:
Porous Boundaries and Fragile Linkages 5. Mobile Talents: Expatriates in
Transnational Fields of Work 6. Sexual Mobilities: From Self-Development to
Sexual Settlement 7. Raising Cosmopolitans: Expatriate Educational
Strategies 8. Rethinking Expatriate Communities in the Era of the Chinese
Dream