Transnational Lives in Global Cities

This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore. Plüss argues that these middle-class, well-educated, and often highly skilled migrants mostly experienced a sense of dis-embeddedness, and not cosmopolitanism, or hybridity, in their transnational lives. The author's multi-sited study intersects the Chinese Singaporeans' highly varied perceptions of these global cities and their biographies to show that these migrantswho often were repeat migrantsforemost experienced ruptures and disjuncture in their education, work, family, and/or friendships/lifestyle contexts. Transnational (dis)embeddedness is explained in terms of the Chinese Singaporeans' access to resources and their views of self, others, places, and societies. Plüss recommends that research on these migrants should more fully account for the complexities of transnational processes, and contributes with such a knowledge to the scholarship on transnationalism, migration, race and ethnicity, and migrant non-integration.

Presents a new, and cutting-edge, analytical framework in order to account for the variety, and complexity, of the processes of transnationalization Accounts for new forms of processes of transnationalization, and inequalities, by presenting and applying a new analytical framework to account for the Chinese Singaporeans' (dis-)embeddeness Contributes to the scholarship of globalization, transnationalization, migration, and race and ethnicity

Autorentext
Caroline Plüss is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, Singapore.

Inhalt
1: Analyzing Transnational Lives.- 2: (Dis-)embeddedness in Transnational Spaces.- 3: 'Chinese' Transnational Experiences in Hong Kong.- 4: 'Incongruous' Transnational Lives in London.- 5: 'Cosmopolitan' Transnational Living in New York.- 6: Gendered Transnational Experiences 'Back' in Singapore.- 7: Conclusion.