Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home (Hardcover, 2003)

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Approaching Transnationalisms; B.S.A. Yeoh, K.P.Y. Lai, M.W. Charney, Tong Chee Kiong. Part I: Constructing Transnational Societies. 2. Transnationalism and Citizenship; M.P.Smith. 3. The Role of New Arrivals in Hong Kong's Economic Imaginary: Restructuring Migration Policies in the Context of Global Competition for Highly Skilled Workers; A. Smart. 4. Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, and the Enclave; J. Salaff, A. Greve, Wong Siu-Lun, L. Xu Li Ping. 5. Change Management and Consultants: New Challenges for Small Entrepreneurs in Singapore; L. Kay, T. Menkhoff. Part II: Multicultural Contacts. 6. Recognizing Cultural Diversity and Renegotiating Civic Citizenship: Australia as an Immigrant Society at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century; H.D. Min-hsi Chan. 7. School of the Nation: Memory and National Identity in France; R.L. Derderian. 8. Multicultural Society and Intercultural Education: Debates in the Federal Republic of Germany; K.F. Geiger. 9. Housing Ethnicity: Multicultural Negotiation and Housing the Transnational Student; R. Fincher, L. Costello. 10. The Floating Body and the Disappearing Border: Contemporary Chinese Poetry in Exile; Dian Li. Part III: Imaginings Of Home And Community. 11. Haitian Immigrants in the United States: the Imagining of Where 'Home' is in Their Transnational Social Fields; G. Fouron. 12. Essentializing Chinese Identity: Transnationalism and the Chinese in Europe and Southeast Asia; G. Benton, E.T. Gomez. 13. Architects of a Discourse: Scholars, Migrantsand the Notion of Home in Vietnam; A. Hardy. 14. A Tale of Two Communities: Bangladeshis in Singapore; H. Haque Khondker. References. Index.