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Salaff, Janet W.; Wong, Siulun; Greve, Arent - Hong Kong Movers and Stayers - 9780252035180 - V9780252035180
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Hong Kong Movers and Stayers

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Description for Hong Kong Movers and Stayers Hardback. Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 - and nearly half of those returned within several years of leaving. This book takes a look at the forces behind Hong Kong families' successful and failed efforts at migration and settlement. Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJP; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .

Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong's reversion to China in 1997. Nearly half of those returned within the next several years. Filled with detailed, first-hand stories of nine Hong Kong families over nearly two decades, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers is a multifaceted yet intimate look at the forces behind Hong Kong families' successful, and failed, efforts at migration and settlement. 

Defining migration as a process, not a single act of leaving, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers provides an antidote to ethnocentric and simplistic theories by uncovering migration stories as they relate to social structures ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Studies of World Migrations
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035180
SKU
V9780252035180
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Salaff, Janet W.; Wong, Siulun; Greve, Arent
Janet W. Salaff was a professor emerita of sociology at the University of Toronto and the author of Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family?Siu-lun Wong is a professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Arent Greve is a professor of organization theory at the ... Read more

Reviews for Hong Kong Movers and Stayers
"There is no other study like this in the China migration literature, nor in the literature on emigration from Hong Kong. The thoroughness of this longitudinal research provides a highly nuanced account of how changes in family life over a period of fifteen years have affected motivations and outcomes for migration."
Nicole Newendorp, author of Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and ... Read more

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