Author(s): David Ley
Categories: Social Science > General, Business & Economics > International, Business & Economics > Economics
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publish date: 2010-04-12
ISBN-10: 1405192917
ISBN-13: 9781405192910
Language: English
Description: Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of
databases, this is an examination of the migration career of
wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and
1990s.* An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of
research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional
comparative visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and
Singapore* Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25
year period* Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions
of neo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography into
transnational theory
databases, this is an examination of the migration career of
wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and
1990s.* An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of
research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional
comparative visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and
Singapore* Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25
year period* Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions
of neo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography into
transnational theory
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