The Chinese Overseas

W Gungwu, E Hu-DeHart, DD Wang, W Siu-lun… - From earthbound China …, 2000 - brill.com
During a visit to Beruas, a small village-town in West Malaysia in 2005, I was alarmed by the
fact that more and more grandmothers were speaking to their grandchildren in bad …

The Social Construction of Skill in International Migration: Perspectives from Asia

G Liu-Farrer - Annual Review of Sociology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Skill-based selective migration policies are a dominant contemporary form of migration
governance in labor receiving countries. Researchers have critiqued these policies, noting …

[BOG][B] Raising global families: Parenting, immigration, and class in Taiwan and the US

PC Lan - 2018 - books.google.com
Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set,
disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to …

Trading places: French highly skilled migrants negotiating mobility and emplacement in London

L Ryan, J Mulholland - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the migratory strategies of highly skilled French migrants in London's
business and financial sectors. Drawing on qualitative data with 37 participants from this …

[BOG][B] International migrants in China's global city: The New Shanghailanders

J Farrer - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant destination. In 2016,
government sources reported that nearly 900,000 foreigners were working in China, though …

Residential trajectories of high-skilled transnational migrants in a global city: Exploring the housing choices of Russian and Italian professionals in London

S Maslova, R King - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper explores the residential trajectories of highly skilled transnational migrants in
London. It analyses this under-researched topic by drawing on interview data with 32 mostly …

Precarious talent: highly skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore

S Zhan, M Zhou - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their
strategies of adaptation. We employ the term “precarious talent” to capture an often …

International professors in China: Prestige maintenance and making sense of teaching abroad

EC Kim - Current Sociology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
A new pattern of global migration is that of skilled or educated people moving from
developed to develo** countries in search of work. In this qualitative research study, 41 …

[BOG][B] The leisure commons: A spatial history of Web 2.0

P Arora - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building
space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social …

Social and economic integration of highly educated/high-skilled migrants in East and Southeast Asia: Overview of the Special Issue

E Fong - Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Attracting highly educated/high-skilled migrants has been a major policy issue for many East
and Southeast Asian economies. Highly skilled migrants do not necessarily have higher …