Millionaire Migrants

Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of
databases, this is an examination of the migration career of
wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and
1990s.

• An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research
  in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative
  visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and Singapore

• Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 year
  period

• Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions of
  neo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography into
  transnational theory

Autorentext
David Ley is Canada Research Chair of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His research examines the social geography of gateway cities, including relations between immigration and urbanisation, and gentrification and housing markets. He is the author of The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City (1996), and A Social Geography of the City (1983), co-author of Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State (1994), and co-editor of Place/Culture/Representation (1993). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Pierre Trudeau Foundation.

Zusammenfassung
Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.

• An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and Singapore
• Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 year period
• Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions of neo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography into transnational theory

Inhalt

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Introduction: Trans-Pacific Mobility and the New Immigration
Paradigm.

2 Transition: From the Orient to the Pacifi c Rim.

3 Calculating Agents: Millionaire Migrants Meet the Canadian
State.

4 Geography (still) Matters: Homo Economicus and the
Business Immigration Programme.

5 Embodied Real Estate: The Cultural Mobility of Property.

6 Immigrant Reception: Contesting Globalization... or
Resistant Racism?

7 Establishing Roots: From the Nuclear Family to Substantive
Citizenship.

8 Roots and Routes: The Myth of Return or Transnational
Circulation?

9 Conclusion: Immigrants in Space.

Notes.

References.

Index.