Chinese Transnational Families

Author : Laura Lamas-Abraira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000508437

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Chinese Transnational Families by Laura Lamas-Abraira Pdf

The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families’ children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, in its multiple dimensions and timescales – past, present and future – as the unifying thread. In doing so, it provides a contribution to the emerging body of research about care and transnational families and it posits the need to question hegemonic models of family, childhood and care, and to give voice and visibility to other actors, moving beyond the adult-centred perspective that dominates migration research. The ethnographic approach together with the focus on the day-to-day lives of these families, in which care is the core concept, as it permeates people’s lives and traverses society generationally, makes this book appealing to both scholars and general public.

Author : Mengwei Tu
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787146723

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Education, Migration and Family Relations Between China and the UK by Mengwei Tu Pdf

This book provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families by examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents, who remain in China.

Author : Liangni Sally Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315438511

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Chinese Transnational Migration in the Age of Global Modernity by Liangni Sally Liu Pdf

The term ‘circulatory transnational migration’ best describes the unconventional migratory route of many contemporary Chinese migrants – that is an unfinished set of circulatory movements that these migrants engage in between the homeland and various host countries. ‘Return migration’, ‘step migration’ to a third destination and the ‘astronauting’ strategy are all included within this circulatory migration movement wherein ‘returning’ to the country of origin does not always mean to settle back to the homeland permanently; while ‘step migration’ also does not necessarily mean to re-migrate to a third destination country for a permanent purpose. Liu takes a longitudinal perspective to study Chinese migrants’ transnational movements and looks at their transnational migratory movements as a family matter and progressive and dynamic process, using New Zealand as a primary case study. She examines Chinese migrants’ initial motives for immigrating to New Zealand; the driving forces behind their adoption of a transnational lifestyle which includes leaving New Zealand to return to China, moving to a third country – typically Australia - or commuting across borders; family-related considerations; inter-generational dynamics in transnational migration; as well as their future movement intentions. Liu also discusses Chinese migrants’ conceptualisation of ‘home’, citizenship, identity, and sense of belonging to provide a deeper understanding of their transnational migratory experiences.

Author : Liangni Sally Liu,Guanyu Jason Ran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000474558

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New Chinese Immigrants in New Zealand by Liangni Sally Liu,Guanyu Jason Ran Pdf

This book focuses on new immigrant families from the People’s Republic of China to New Zealand and investigates how these families have adapted to New Zealand immigration policy regime, which does not accommodate their cultural preference to live as multigenerational families easily. The book analyses a three-generation framework: First-generation adult immigrants, their children and older parents. It examines how migratory mobility and intergenerational dynamics configure migratory trajectories of individual family members and shape their family lives and sense of identity. The book sheds light on how different family generations pursue their own interests and goals while maintaining family unity and cohesiveness in contexts of increasing transnational mobility opportunities and constraints. It also investigates how familial ties, transnational connections and a sense of identity and belonging are defined and redefined during the process of transnational migration. This book can serve as a heuristic reference to and meaningful comparative parameter for studying transnational family migration in other contexts. As a significant theoretical contribution to the theory of transnational family formation in contexts where restrictive immigration policies result in members of multigenerational families living across different countries, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, anthropology, race and ethnic studies as well as Asian and Chinese studies.

Author : Lloyd L. Wong
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774833813

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Trans-Pacific Mobilities by Lloyd L. Wong Pdf

With the number of Chinese living outside of its borders expected to reach 52 million by 2030, China has one of the most mobile populations on earth, shaping economies, cultures, and politics around the globe. Trans-Pacific Mobilities charts how the cross-border movement of Chinese people, goods, and images affects notions of place, belonging, and identity, particularly in Canada. Drawing on the new mobilities paradigm, contributors explore this phenomenon through five lenses, mapping out historic, cultural and symbolic, highly skilled, family and gendered, and transnational mobilities. This volume offers fresh insights into historical and contemporary Chinese mobilities and issues of transnationalism.

Author : Haiming Liu
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813535972

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The Transnational History of a Chinese Family by Haiming Liu Pdf

Family and home are one word--jia--in the Chinese language. Family can be separated and home may be relocated, but jia remains intact. It signifies a system of mutual obligation, lasting responsibility, and cultural values. This strong yet flexible sense of kinship has enabled many Chinese immigrant families to endure long physical separation and accommodate continuities and discontinuities in the process of social mobility. Based on an analysis of over three thousand family letters and other primary sources, including recently released immigration files from the National Archives and Records Administration, Haiming Liu presents a remarkable transnational history of a Chinese family from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. For three generations, the family lived between the two worlds. While the immigrant generation worked hard in an herbalist business and asparagus farming, the younger generation crossed back and forth between China and America, pursuing proper education, good careers, and a meaningful life during a difficult period of time for Chinese Americans. When social instability in China and hostile racial environment in America prevented the family from being rooted in either side of the Pacific, transnational family life became a focal point of their social existence. This well-documented and illustrated family history makes it clear that, for many Chinese immigrant families, migration does not mean a break from the past but the beginning of a new life that incorporates and transcends dual national boundaries. It convincingly shows how transnationalism has become a way of life for Chinese American families.

Author : Huhua Cao,Vivienne Poy
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776619552

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The China Challenge by Huhua Cao,Vivienne Poy Pdf

With the exception of Canada’s relationship with the United States, Canada’s relationship with China will likely be its most significant foreign connection in the twenty-first century. As China’s role in world politics becomes more central, understanding China becomes essential for Canadian policymakers and policy analysts in a variety of areas. Responding to this need, The China Challenge brings together perspectives from both Chinese and Canadian experts on the evolving Sino-Canadian relationship. It traces the history and looks into the future of Canada-China bilateral relations. It also examines how China has affected a number of Canadian foreign and domestic policy issues, including education, economics, immigration, labour and language. Recently, Canada-China relations have suffered from inadequate policymaking and misunderstandings on the part of both governments. Establishing a good dialogue with China must be a Canadian priority in order to build and maintain mutually beneficial relations with this emerging power, which will last into the future.

Author : Laura Lamas-Abraira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000508321

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Chinese Transnational Families by Laura Lamas-Abraira Pdf

The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families’ children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, in its multiple dimensions and timescales – past, present and future – as the unifying thread. In doing so, it provides a contribution to the emerging body of research about care and transnational families and it posits the need to question hegemonic models of family, childhood and care, and to give voice and visibility to other actors, moving beyond the adult-centred perspective that dominates migration research. The ethnographic approach together with the focus on the day-to-day lives of these families, in which care is the core concept, as it permeates people’s lives and traverses society generationally, makes this book appealing to both scholars and general public.

Author : Philip Q. Yang
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039219087

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Transnationalism and Genealogy by Philip Q. Yang Pdf

Transnationalism and genealogy is an emerging subfield of genealogy which intersects with other fields. The last two to three decades have witnessed a significant growth in this subfield, especially in the areas of transnationalism and family arrangements, transnational marriage, transnational adoption, transnational parenting, and transnational care for elderly parents. However, large gaps remain, especially with regard to the impact of transnationalism on lineage. In filling some lacunas in the current literature, Transnationalism and Genealogy represents an initial attempt to frame the relationship between transnationalism and genealogy. The articles included in this book cover various aspects of transnationalism and genealogy from historical periods until the present, with perspectives from anthropology, sociology, history, and African studies. The topics stretch from transnationalism and the emancipation of black kinship to the transformation of a Chinese immigrant family from traditional to transnational as well as the impact of this transformation on its family relations and lineage, a family history of transnational migration across four nation/city states in four generations, the role of social media platforms (Facebook in particular) in facilitating transnational care chains in the Trinidadian diasporic community, and a comparison between Chinese immigrants in the United States and Singapore in transnational parenting. The introductory essay offers a laconic assessment of the subfield of transnationalism and genealogy.

Author : Maria W. L. Chee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Families
ISBN : UCR:31210017934496

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Migration, Globalization, and Women in Taiwanese American Transnational Families by Maria W. L. Chee Pdf

Author : Chan Kwok-bun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461402664

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International Handbook of Chinese Families by Chan Kwok-bun Pdf

Families are the cornerstone of Chinese society, whether in mainland China, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, or in the Chinese diaspora the world over. Handbook of the Chinese Family provides an overview of economics, politics, race, ethnicity, and culture within and external to the Chinese family as a social institution. While simultaneously evaluating its own methodological tools, this book will set current knowledge in the context of what has been previously studied as well as future research directions. It will examine inter-family relationships and politics as well as childrearing, education, and family economics to provide a rounded and in-depth view.

Author : Sara K. Dorow
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814721476

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Transnational Adoption by Sara K. Dorow Pdf

Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration. Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. Sara K. Dorow begins by situating the popularity of the China/U.S. adoption process within a broader history of immigration and adoption. She then follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions and bureaucracies in both China and the United States that prepare children and parents for each other; the stories and practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; the strains placed upon our common notions of what motherhood means; and ways in which parents then construct the cultural and racial identities of adopted children. Based on rich ethnographic evidence, including interviews with and observation of people on both sides of the Pacific—from orphanages, government officials, and adoption agencies to advocacy groups and adoptive families themselves—this is a fascinating look at the latest chapter in Chinese-American migration.

Author : Rachel Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108834858

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The Children of China's Great Migration by Rachel Murphy Pdf

Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children's experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

Author : David Fu-Keung Ip,Raymond Hibbins,Wing Hong Chui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066750863

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Experiences of Transnational Chinese Migrants in the Asia-Pacific by David Fu-Keung Ip,Raymond Hibbins,Wing Hong Chui Pdf

This title provides a much needed theoretical account of socio-cultural and identity issues surrounding middle-class Chinese migration in the changing context of migration policies and issues in Australia and other places. It also offers insights to students studying the current changing face of Chinese migration and provides relevant data to policy-makers, managers and practitioners in the field of immigration and multicultural affairs. This is a cutting edge volume that advances theories, methodologies and policy issues relating to contemporary middle-class Chinese migrants. It reports and discusses multidisciplinary research undertaken in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The book will not only serve as an introductory textbook for students of migration studies, social sciences and China studies, but also as a reference source for those who are interested in learning about recent Chinese migration in Asia and the Pacific.

Author : Madeline Y. Hsu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804746877

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Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home by Madeline Y. Hsu Pdf

This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese in the United States originated. The author vividly depicts the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in "Gold Mountain."