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Global Taiwanese : Asian skilled labour migrants in a changing world / Fiona Moore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (165 pages) : illustration (black and white)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781487510008
  • 1487510004
  • 9781487509996
  • 1487509995
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global Taiwanese.DDC classification:
  • 304.8089/9925 23
LOC classification:
  • DS799.42 .M66 2021eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
Why Taiwan? Taiwanese identity and the Chinese Diaspora -- The network society and Taiwanese skilled labour migration -- Signs and meanings : defining and maintaining Taiwanese identity -- London : the city of sojourners -- Toronto : the city of settlers -- Taipei : the city of origen -- Cutting bamboo : migrants and transnational ethnic networks -- The social network : migrants and transnational networking organizations -- Taiwan in the net : identities in perspective.
Summary: "In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates living in London and Toronto, along with globally networked professionals in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks. Based on a three-year-long ethnographic study that incorporates interviews with people from diverse backgrounds, generations and histories, Global Taiwanese explores what their different experiences tell us about migration in "tolerant" and "hostile" regimes. Global Taiwanese considers the implications of the Taiwanese case for understanding the processes by which transnational professionals more generally use ethnic identity in their business and personal lives. As people become increasingly mobile, ethnic identity becomes more important as a means of negotiating transnational encounters; however, at the same time, the opportunities it offers are rooted in local cultural practices, requiring professionals and other migrants to develop complex social strategies that link and cross the global and local levels. With rich ethnographic detail, this book contributes to the understanding of the migrant experience and how it varies from location to location, how migration more generally changes in response to wider socioeconomic factors, and, finally, of the specific case of Taiwan and how the distinctive nature of its diaspora emerges through wider discourses of Chineseness and pan-Asian identity."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why Taiwan? Taiwanese identity and the Chinese Diaspora -- The network society and Taiwanese skilled labour migration -- Signs and meanings : defining and maintaining Taiwanese identity -- London : the city of sojourners -- Toronto : the city of settlers -- Taipei : the city of origen -- Cutting bamboo : migrants and transnational ethnic networks -- The social network : migrants and transnational networking organizations -- Taiwan in the net : identities in perspective.

"In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates living in London and Toronto, along with globally networked professionals in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks. Based on a three-year-long ethnographic study that incorporates interviews with people from diverse backgrounds, generations and histories, Global Taiwanese explores what their different experiences tell us about migration in "tolerant" and "hostile" regimes. Global Taiwanese considers the implications of the Taiwanese case for understanding the processes by which transnational professionals more generally use ethnic identity in their business and personal lives. As people become increasingly mobile, ethnic identity becomes more important as a means of negotiating transnational encounters; however, at the same time, the opportunities it offers are rooted in local cultural practices, requiring professionals and other migrants to develop complex social strategies that link and cross the global and local levels. With rich ethnographic detail, this book contributes to the understanding of the migrant experience and how it varies from location to location, how migration more generally changes in response to wider socioeconomic factors, and, finally, of the specific case of Taiwan and how the distinctive nature of its diaspora emerges through wider discourses of Chineseness and pan-Asian identity."-- Provided by publisher.

Fiona Moore is a professor in the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway University of London.

Print version record.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050

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