This book is a compelling account of China's response to the increasing numbers of 'foreigners' in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China's position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift. From being a nation most notable for the numbers of its emigrants, China has increasingly become a destination for immigrants from all points of the globe. What attracts international migrants to China and how are they received once they arrive? This timely volume explores this question in depth. Focusing on such diverse migrant communities as African traders in Guangzhou, Japanese call center workers in Dalian, migrant restaurateurs in Shanghai, marriage migrants on the Vietnamese borderlands, South Korean parents in Beijing, Europeans in Xiamen and Western professionals in Hong Kong, as well as the booming expansion of British and North American English language teachers across the nation, the accounts offered here reveal in intimate detail the motivations, experiences, and aspirations of the diversity of international migrants in China.

Explores in-depth a topic that has to-date been largely absent from the many books about China and its rise Allows the reader to question commonly-held assumptions about China and migration Brings together cutting-edge, contemporary social research conducted in China by researchers from around the world

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Angela Lehmann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Xiamen, China. Her research focuses on migration into China and urban change. Her ethnographic study into expatriates living in China was published as Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City by in 2014.

Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She has published extensively on privileged migration, including Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness (2010) and Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (2014).

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This book is a compelling account of Chinäs response to the increasing numbers of foreigners in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, Chinäs position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift. From being a nation most notable for the numbers of its emigrants, China has increasingly become a destination for immigrants from all points of the globe. What attracts international migrants to China and how are they received once they arrive? This timely volume explores this question in depth. Focusing on such diverse migrant communities as African traders in Guangzhou, Japanese call center workers in Dalian, migrant restaurateurs in Shanghai, marriage migrants on the Vietnamese borderlands, South Korean parents in Beijing, Europeans in Xiamen and Western professionals in Hong Kong, as well as the booming expansion of British and North American English language teachers across the nation, the accounts offered here reveal in intimate detail the motivations, experiences, and aspirations of the diversity of international migrants in China.

Inhalt

1. International Migrants in China: Civility, Contradiction and Confusion.-Part I Getting In and Getting On: Negotiating Bureaucracy
   and Immigration Restrictions.- 2. Marriage Immigration and Illegality in China's Ethnic Borders.- 3. Residence Registration in China's Immigration Control: Africans in Guangzhou.-Part II New Country, New Beginning? Constructing New Identities and Social Positions.- 4. Educational Desire and Pursuit of a Transnational Badge among South Korean Middle-class Parents in Beijing.- 5. From Expatriates to New Cosmopolitans? Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong.- Part III A Land of Opportunity? Working as a Foreigner in Post-reform China.- 6. Japanese Labour Migration to China and IT Service Outsourcing: The Case of Dalian.- 7. Devils or Superstars? Making English Language Teachers in China.- Part IV Making Urban Spaces: Entrepreneurialism, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism.- 8. Culinary Globalization from Above and Below:Culinary Migrants in Urban Place Making in Shanghai.- 9. Creating and Managing an International Community: Immigration, Integration, and Governance in a Mainland Chinese City