Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Historical Mobilities
6. The Cantonese Pacific: Migration Networks and Mobility Across Space and Time 25
7. Transnational Mobilities in Canadian Chinatowns 49
8. Cultural and Symbolic Mobilities
9. Heeding the Phoenix Pen: Trans-Pacific Scriptures from Lü Dongbin 63
10. Mandarin Profile: Chinese-Language Television and Geo-Ethnic Storytelling 84
11. Media Representations of Investment and Labour in Alberta’s Resource Economy 102
12. Highly Skilled Mobilities
13. New Immigrants from China to Canada, 1980–2009: Migration Patterns and Economic Performance 117
14. Economic Mobilities of Highly Skilled China-Born Migrants in Canada and the United States 138
15. Chinese Techno-Immigrants in Western Canada 167
16. Canadian Immigration Policy and Chinese Students: Transitioning to Permanent Residency 186
17. Family and Gendered Mobilities
18. Locational Dispersion of Family Members: Chinese in Toronto 207
19. Gendered Practices of Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals 222
20. Bringing Transnationalism Home: Mobility and Locality in China-Canada Adoption 237
21. Transnational Mobilities
22. Exploring Transnational Identities of Chinese Immigrant Children in Canada 261
23. Double Diaspora: The Experience of Chinese Canadians in Beijing 282
24. The Practice of Transnationalism in Pacific Mall: Chinese Canadian Experience 302
25. Chinatown Unbound 315
26. Contributors 333
27. Index 339