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 theoryThrough the 1990s the density of such stories thickened in the Hong Kong media: a#39;Emigrants find grass no greenera#39; (Torode 1994); a#39;Brain gain follows tremendous brain draina#39; (Batha 1996); a#39;Luxury (Vancouver) homes for sale as migrantsanbsp;...
Title | : | Millionaire Migrants |
Author | : | David Ley |
Publisher | : | John Wiley & Sons - 2011-08-02 |
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