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oapen-20.500.12657-302592021-04-30T10:39:50Z Return Xiang, Biao Yeoh, Brenda S. A. Toyota, Mika History China India Japan Overseas Chinese United States Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-term contracts, and highly skilled émigrés, the contributors argue that the figure of the returnee energizes and redefines nationalism in an era of increasingly fluid and indeterminate national sovereignty. They acknowledge the diversity, complexity, and instability of reverse migration, while emphasizing its discursive, policy, and political significance at a moment when the tensions between state power and transnational subjects are particularly visible. Taken together, the essays foreground Asia as a useful site for rethinking the intersections of migration, sovereignty, and nationalism. 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:33 2020-04-01T12:49:53Z 2020-04-01T12:49:53Z 2013-09-13 book 648158 OCN: 858031848 9780822377474 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30259 eng application/pdf n/a 648158.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822377474 100995 10.1215/9780822377474 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822377474 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 100995 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-term contracts, and highly skilled émigrés, the contributors argue that the figure of the returnee energizes and redefines nationalism in an era of increasingly fluid and indeterminate national sovereignty. They acknowledge the diversity, complexity, and instability of reverse migration, while emphasizing its discursive, policy, and political significance at a moment when the tensions between state power and transnational subjects are particularly visible. Taken together, the essays foreground Asia as a useful site for rethinking the intersections of migration, sovereignty, and nationalism.
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