Transnational Lives in Global Cities A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants /

• Main Author: Plüss, Caroline (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Citizenship-Sociological aspects.; Cultural studies.; Urban geography.; Migration.; Sociology of Citizenship.; Cultural Studies.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore. Plüss argues that these middle-class, well-educated, and often highly skilled migrants mostly experienced a sense of dis-embeddedness, and...