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Transnational Migration and Asia : The Question of Return / Michiel Baas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Asia ; 4Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 1 halftoneContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089646583
  • 9789048523306
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.5
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction. Return Migration/the Returning Migrant: To What, Where and Why? -- 2. Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia. Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multigenerational Meanings of Return -- 3. The Fluidity of Return. Indian Student Migrants’ Transnational Ambitions and the Meaning of Australian Permanent Residency -- 4. Resident ‘Non-resident’ Indians. Gender, Labour and the Return to India -- 5. ‘It’s Still Home Home’. Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland -- 6. Looking Back while Moving Forward. Japanese Elites and the Prominence of ‘Home’ in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924 -- 7. Return of the Lost Generation? Search for Belonging, Identity and Home among Second- Generation Viet Kieu -- 8. ‘A Xu/Sou for the Students’. A Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Student Migration to France in the Late Colonial Period -- 9. ‘The Bengali Can Return to His Desh but the Burmi Can’t Because He Has No Desh’. Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese- Rohingya and Bangladeshi Migrants in Pakistan -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: As our increasingly globalized world alters the dynamics of migration, the ideas that migrants have about returning to their home countries have evolved as well. This diverse collection examines the changes and complexities of migration patterns in a range of Asian countries and cities, exploring how globalization and transnationalism shape and give meaning to the migrant experience. From Japanese-Brazilian transmigrants and Filipina students in Ireland to skilled migrants from India, the authors address migrants’ backgrounds, ambitions, and opportunities to offer intriguing insights and propose fascinating new questions about the lives of migrants in today’s world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction. Return Migration/the Returning Migrant: To What, Where and Why? -- 2. Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia. Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multigenerational Meanings of Return -- 3. The Fluidity of Return. Indian Student Migrants’ Transnational Ambitions and the Meaning of Australian Permanent Residency -- 4. Resident ‘Non-resident’ Indians. Gender, Labour and the Return to India -- 5. ‘It’s Still Home Home’. Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland -- 6. Looking Back while Moving Forward. Japanese Elites and the Prominence of ‘Home’ in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924 -- 7. Return of the Lost Generation? Search for Belonging, Identity and Home among Second- Generation Viet Kieu -- 8. ‘A Xu/Sou for the Students’. A Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Student Migration to France in the Late Colonial Period -- 9. ‘The Bengali Can Return to His Desh but the Burmi Can’t Because He Has No Desh’. Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese- Rohingya and Bangladeshi Migrants in Pakistan -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

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As our increasingly globalized world alters the dynamics of migration, the ideas that migrants have about returning to their home countries have evolved as well. This diverse collection examines the changes and complexities of migration patterns in a range of Asian countries and cities, exploring how globalization and transnationalism shape and give meaning to the migrant experience. From Japanese-Brazilian transmigrants and Filipina students in Ireland to skilled migrants from India, the authors address migrants’ backgrounds, ambitions, and opportunities to offer intriguing insights and propose fascinating new questions about the lives of migrants in today’s world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)