Seeing Transnationally: How Chinese Migrants Make Their Dreams Come True (Series of Global Migration and China) - Hardcover

Li, Minghuan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9058679012 ISBN 13: 9789058679017

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Co-publication with Zhejiang University Press
Worldwide selling rights excl. China

Stories and experiences of Chinese migrants
This collection of essays by Li Minghuan, an early new migrant-scholar herself, documents the extraordinary story of Chinese transnational migration. The book represents over two decades of untiring empirical field research, going where the migrants go - the Netherlands, France, Canada - and where they come from - Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Mingxi in Fujian - in order to observe, and to listen, with an unwaveringly sympathetic eye and ear, to what they, their families, their neighbours, their brokers, and their local officials have to say. Coupled with the historian's craft of painstaking archival research, these village and community case studies not only cover an astounding geographical orbit of sending and receiving areas, but also a broad diversity and range of migrant types and situations both historical and contemporary, from illegal and refugee migration, to official labor export, to the migration of students and professionals.

About this title

About the Author

Li Minghuan is Professor at the Institute of Population Studies at Xiamen University, China, and consultant at the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, China.

From the Back Cover

Co-publication with Zhejiang University Press Worldwide selling rights excl. China Stories and experiences of Chinese migrants This collection of essays by Li Minghuan, an early new migrant-scholar herself, documents the extraordinary story of Chinese transnational migration. The book represents over two decades of untiring empirical field research, going where the migrants go - the Netherlands, France, Canada - and where they come from - Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Mingxi in Fujian - in order to observe, and to listen, with an unwaveringly sympathetic eye and ear, to what they, their families, their neighbours, their brokers, and their local officials have to say. Coupled with the historian's craft of painstaking archival research, these village and community case studies not only cover an astounding geographical orbit of sending and receiving areas, but also a broad diversity and range of migrant types and situations both historical and contemporary, from illegal and refugee migration, to official labor export, to the migration of students and professionals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9058679012
• ISBN 13: 9789058679017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317