Overview
- Explores in-depth a topic that has to-date been largely absent from the many books about China and its rise
- Allows the reader to question commonly-held assumptions about China and migration
- Brings together cutting-edge, contemporary social research conducted in China by researchers from around the world
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Getting In and Getting On: Negotiating Bureaucracy and Immigration Restrictions
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New Country, New Beginning? Constructing New Identities and Social Positions
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A Land of Opportunity? Working as a Foreigner in Post-reform China
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Making Urban Spaces: Entrepreneurialism, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She has published extensively on privileged migration, including Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness (2010) and Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Destination China
Book Subtitle: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era
Editors: Angela Lehmann, Pauline Leonard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54433-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55710-0Published: 26 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54433-9Published: 25 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 238
Topics: Asian Politics, Migration