Globalizing Chinese Migration Trends in Europe and Asia Routledge Revivals Series

This title was first published in 2003. Globalizing Chinese Migration is the first volume to deal comprehensively with the most recent wave of the migration from the People's Republic of China to Europe and Asia. By analyzing the Chinese state?s role in this migration, the authors dismiss as fiction the theory (sometimes advanced by hostile and racist foreign observers) that Chinese authorities are intent on using mass emigration as an expansionist tool. They go on to explain that migrants who might, in earlier times, have been reviled as traitors and absconders are today more likely to be viewed by sections of the Chinese state bureaucracy as patriots who remain part of China?s polity and economy and contribute to its standing overseas. Some senior officials, however, particularly diplomats, stress the harm done by new migrants, both to China?s economy (which loses assets as a result of the migrants? entrepreneurial activities) and to its reputation in the world. An essential resource for academics and students alike, the volume presents important new data on aspects of Chinese migration largely neglected in the existing English-language literature. These include new forms of emigration from China (by students and by workers from the country?s north-eastern provinces) and emigration to destinations (including Russia, Southeast Asia, and Japan) normally unremarked by students of population movements.

Contents: Globality and diversity: Introduction, Igor R. Saveliev. Global Chinese Migration: New Spaces and New Flows: Evading the divine wind through the side door: the transformation of Chinese migration to Japan, H. Richard Friman; Chinese migration to Russia in space and time, Igor R. Saveliev; Chinese in the labour market of the Russian Far East: past, present, future, Anatolii M. Shkurkin; Contemporary Chinese migration to Russia, Vilya G. Gelbras; Illegal aliens smuggling to and through Southeast Asia’s golden triangle, Bertil Lintner; The Dongbei: the new Chinese immigration in Paris, Marc Paul. The Global Chinese: Constructing the Discourse: Chinese migrant workers in Japan: policies, institutions, and civil society, Daojiong Zha ; Non-remaining and non-returning: the mainland Chinese students in Japan and Europe since the 1970s, Cheng Xi; A group in transition: Chinese students and scholars in the Netherlands, Li Minghuan; Changing Chinese identities and migration in the borderlands of China, Burma and Thailand, Mika Toyota; From class enemies to patriots: overseas Chinese and emigration policy and discourse in the People’s Republic of China, Pál Nyíri; Gold from the lands afar: new Fujianese emigration revisited, James K. Chin; Time travels: locating xinyimin in Sino-Cambodian histories, Penny Edwards; Mobility, entrepreneurship, and sex: how narratives of modernity help Chinese women in Hungary evade gender constraints, Pál Nyíri; Appendix, Go Bon Juan; Afterword, Pál Nyíri; Index.

Pál Nyíri, Senior Fellow, Humanities Centre, Central European University, Hungary. Igor R. Saveliev Associate Professor, Niigata University, Japan.