Research Catalog

Title

Global Taiwanese : Asian skilled labour migrants in a changing world / Fiona Moore.

Author

Moore, Fiona

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

165 pages : illustration (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

"In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates living in London and Toronto, along with globally networked professionals in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks. Based on a three-year-long ethnographic study that incorporates interviews with people from diverse backgrounds, generations and histories, Global Taiwanese explores what their different experiences tell us about migration in "tolerant" and "hostile" regimes. Global Taiwanese considers the implications of the Taiwanese case for understanding the processes by which transnational professionals more generally use ethnic identity in their business and personal lives. As people become increasingly mobile, ethnic identity becomes more important as a means of negotiating transnational encounters; however, at the same time, the opportunities it offers are rooted in local cultural practices, requiring professionals and other migrants to develop complex social strategies that link and cross the global and local levels. With rich ethnographic detail, this book contributes to the understanding of the migrant experience and how it varies from location to location, how migration more generally changes in response to wider socioeconomic factors, and, finally, of the specific case of Taiwan and how the distinctive nature of its diaspora emerges through wider discourses of Chineseness and pan-Asian identity."--

Subject

• Taiwanese > England > London
• Taiwanese > Ontario > Toronto
• Taiwanese > Taiwan > Taipei
• Taiwanese > Ethnic identity
• Social networks
• Taiwanese
• England > London
• Ontario > Toronto
• Taiwan > Taipei

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Why Taiwan? Taiwanese Identity and the Chinese Diaspora -- The Network Society and Taiwanese Skilled Labour Migration -- Signs and Meanings: Defining and Maintaining Taiwanese Identity -- London: The City of Sojourners -- Toronto: The City of Settlers -- Toronto: The City of Settlers -- Cutting Bamboo: Migrants and Transnational Ethnic Networks -- The Social Network: Migrants and Transnational Networking Organizations -- The Social Network: Migrants and Transnational Networking Organizations -- Taiwan in the Net: Identities in Perspective.

Call Number

JFE 21-7490

ISBN

• 1487500017
• 9781487500016

LCCN

2020446473

OCLC

1223016497

Author

Moore, Fiona, author.

Title

Global Taiwanese : Asian skilled labour migrants in a changing world / Fiona Moore.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Other Form:

Online version: Moore, Fiona. Global Taiwanese. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487510004 9781487510008 (OCoLC)1226712938

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7490