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  • Diasporic Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition

    Ethnicity, Gender and Community (Re)making in the Asia Pacific

    Edited by Ningning Chen, Emily Hertzman, Sylvia Ang ...
    Recent studies of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have attempted to highlight the theoretical significance of CVAs for understandings of community (re)making. However, the power dynamics inherent in community (re)making have rarely been expounded. In recognition of this, this book weaves together case studies across countries in the Asia Pacific to explore the complex power relations played ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Contesting Chineseness

    Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants

    by Sylvia Ang ...
    Series series New Mobilities in Asia
    Nearly eleven million Chinese migrants live outside of China. While many of these faces of China’s globalization headed for the popular Western destinations of the United States, Australia and Canada, others have been lured by the booming Asian economies. Compared with pre-1949 Chinese migrants, most are wealthier, motivated by a variety of concerns beyond economic survival and loyal to the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Asian Migration and New Racism

    Beyond Colour and the ‘West’

    Edited by Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between 'white' and 'Others', yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on 'white' people racializing ‘Others’: whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to this 'white'/'Other' binary homogenises select groups of non-'white' including Asians. This approach also ignores ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin, Kam-yee Law ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the consequences which ensue when competing narratives clash, and examines the nature of resistance to dominant ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • Media and the Chinese Diaspora

    Community, Communications and Commerce

    Edited by Wanning Sun ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Transnational Taiwan

    Crossing Borders into the 21st Century

    by David Pendery ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a study of transnationalism, focusing on experience of migrants, immigrants, travelers, expatriates, aliens, evacuees, refugees, and nomads in the world, broadly, and Taiwan, particularly. Offering an entirely new framework for what Taiwan as a contested transnational space means for Asia—a heterotopia, in which multiple visions of politics and society can flourish—Dr. Pendery's ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation in Hong Kong

    Creative and Tactical Belonging

    by Lisa Y.M. Leung ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Second and third generation South and Southeast Asian minorities in Hong Kong, being marginalized from mainstream social and political affairs, have developed an ambivalent sense of belonging to their host society. Unlike their forefathers who first settled in Hong Kong under British colonial rule, these younger generations have spent their formative years in the territory. As such, they have ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Media and Transnational Climate Justice

    Indigenous Activism and Climate Politics

    by Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg ...
    Series Book 22 - Global Crises and the Media
    Media and Transnational Climate Justice captures the intriguing nexus of globalization, crisis, justice, activism and news communication, at a time when radical measures are increasingly demanded to address one of the most pressing global issues: climate change. Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg take a unique approach to climate justice by focusing on transnational rather than international ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Ungrounded Empires

    The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

    Edited by Aihwa Ong, Donald Nonini ...
    In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • East Asian Institute, The: A Goh Keng Swee Legacy

    by . East Asian Institute ...
    This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in Asia under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, Professors Wang Gungwu, John Wong and Zheng Yongnian.The hard work behind the nurturing of this institute is sometimes invisible, unwritten and under-appreciated but the contributions and results are clear and relevant to the scholarly world. The works ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations

    Edited by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh ...
    Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian migrations, this new handbook therefore seeks to examine and evaluate the flows of movement within Asia, as well as into and out of the continent. Through in-depth analysis of both empirical and theoretical ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Privileged Migrants Across the Globe

    Experiences of Inclusion, Exclusion and Mobility

    Edited by Diotima Chattoraj ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse.The book delves into the rising mobility of various groups, including students, skilled professionals, and lifestyle migrants. Despite their education and resources, these individuals encounter hurdles ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD