Flexible citizens? Transnationalism and citizenship amongst economic immigrants in Vancouver

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-234

  Waters, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; CITIZENSHIP; DIASPORA; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; NATIONAL IDENTITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 2042460017     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-0064.00019     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. ANDERSON, K. 1991 Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1874-1980 (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press)
2. APPADURAI, A. 1996 Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
3. BASCH, L, GLICK SCHILLER, N. and SZANTON BLANC, C. 1994 Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States (Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach)
4. BAUBOCK, R. 1994 Transnational Citizenship: Membership and Rights in International Migration (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar)
5. BLOEMRAAD, L. 2000 'Citizenship and Immigration: a current review' Journal of International Migration and Integration 1 (1), 9-38
6. BOURDIEU, P. 1984 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press)
7. BOURDIEU, P. 1986 'The forms of capital' in Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, ed J.G. Richardson (New York: Greenwood Press) 241-258
8. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CANADA 2002 'Who is a business immigrant?' http://cicnet.cl.gc.ca/english/business/index.html (last accessed 18 July 2003)
9. CLIFFORD, J. 1994 'Diasporas' Cultural Anthropology 9, 302-338
10. COHEN, R. 1997 Global Diasporas: An Introduction (London: UCL Press)
11. FONER, N. 2001 'Immigrant commitment to America, then and now: myths and realities' Citizenship Studies 5, 27-40
12. GLICK SCHILLER, N., and FOURON, G. 1999 'Terrains of blood and nation: Haitian transnational social fields' Ethnic and Racial Studies 22, 340-361
13. GORDON, M. 1964 Assimilation in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press)
14. HALL, S. 1990 'Cultural identity and diaspora' in Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, ed. J. Rutherford (London: Lawrence and Wishart) 222-237
15. HAMILTON, G.G., ed. 1999 Cosmopolitan Capitalists; Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century (Seattle: University of Washington Press)
16. HANNA, D. 1992 "'Astronaut" families facing stress of lengthy separations' Vancouver Sun 19 October, B4
17. HONDAGNEU-SOTELO, P. and AVILA, E. 1997 "'I'm here, but I'm there": the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood' Gender and Society 11, 548-571
18. HYNDMAN, J. and WALTON-ROBERTS, M. 1998 'Migration and nation: Burmese refugees in Vancouver' The Bulletin 11, 1-5
19. IP, D., INGLIS, C. and WU, C. 1997 'Concepts of citizenship and identity among recent Asian immigrants in Australia' Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 6, 363-384
20. JOPPKE, C. 1999 Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany and Great Britain (New York: Oxford University Press)
21. KYMLICKA, W. 1995 Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
22. KYMLICKA, W. and NORMAN W. 1994 'Return of the citizen: a survey of recent work on citizenship theory' Ethics 104 (January), 352-381
23. LAM, L. 1994 'Searching for a safe haven: the migration and settlement of Hong Kong Chinese immigrants in Toronto' in Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese, ed R. Skeldon (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe) 163-179
24. LEVITT, P. 2001 'Transnational migration: taking stock and future directions' Global Networks 3, 195-216
25. LEY, D. 1995 'Between Europe and Asia: the case of the missing sequoias' Ecumene 2, 185-219
26. LEY, D. 1999 'Myths and meanings of immigration and the metropolis' The Canadian Geographer 43, 2-19
27. LEY, D. 2000 Seeking Homo Economicus: The Strange Story of Canada's Business Immigration Program Working Paper, 00-02 (Vancouver: Vancouver Centre of Excellence, Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis) http://riim.metropolis.netVirtual%20Library/2000/ wp0002.pdf (last accessed 18 July 2003)
28. LI, P. 1998 The Chinese in Canada 2d edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press)
29. MAK, A.S. 1997 'Skilled Hong Kong immigrants' intention to repatriate' Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 6, 169-184
30. MARSHALL, T.H. 1964 Class, Citizenship and Social Development: Essays by T. H. Marshall (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc.)
31. MITCHELL, K. 1993 'Multiculturalism, or the united colors of capitalism' Antipode 25, 263-294
32. MITCHELL, K. 1995 'Flexible circulation in the Pacific Rim: capitalisms in cultural context' Economic Geography 71, 364-382
33. MITCHELL, K. 1997a 'Different diasporas and the hype of hybridity' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15, 533-553
34. MITCHELL, K. 1997b 'Transnational discourse: bringing geography back in' Antipode 29, 101-114
35. MITCHELL, K. 1997c 'Transnational subjects: constituting the cultural citizen in the era of Pacific Rim capital' in Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism, ed A. Ong and D. Nonini (New York: Routledge) 228-256
36. NONINI, D., and ONG, A. 1997 'Chinese transnationalism as an alternative modernity' in Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism, ed A. Ong and D. Nonini (New York: Routledge) 3-33
37. ONG, A. 1999 Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (Durham, NC: Duke University Press)
38. ONG, A., and NONINI, D., eds. 1997 Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (New York, Routledge)
39. PE-PUA, R., MITCHELL, C., CASTLES, S. and IREDALE, R. 1998 'Astronaut families and parachute children: Hong Kong immigrants in Australia' in The Last Half-Century of Chinese Overseas, ed E. Sinn (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press) 279-297
40. PORTES, A., GUARNIZO, L.E., and LANDOLT, P. 1999 'Introduction: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field' Ethnic and Racial Studies 22, 463-478
41. SKELDON, R., ed. 1994 Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe)
42. SKELDON, R., 1995 'The emergence of trans-Pacific migration' in The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, ed R. Cohen (New York: Cambridge University Press) 532-536
43. SMART, J. 1994 'Business immigration to Canada: deception and exploitation' in Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese, ed R. Skeldon (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe) 98-119
44. SMITH, M.P. and GUARNIZO, L.E., eds. 1998 Transnationalism from Below (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers)
45. SOYSAL, Y. 1994 Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe, (Chicago: The University of Chicago)
46. TSENG, Y. 1997 'Immigration industry: immigration consulting firms in the process of Taiwanese business immigration' Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 6 (3-4), 275-294
47. VERTOVEC, S. 1999 'Conceiving and researching transnationalism' Ethnic and Racial Studies 22, 447-462
48. WALTON-ROBERTS, M. 2001 'Embodied global flows: immigration and transnational networks between British Columbia, Canada, and Punjab, India' Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
49. WANG, G. 2000 The Chinese Overseas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press)
50. WATERS, J.L. 2000 'Flexible families? The experiences of astronaut and satellite households among recent Chinese immigrants to Vancouver, BC' M.A. thesis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
51. WATERS, J.L. 2002 'Flexible families? "Astronaut" households and the experiences of lone mothers in Vancouver, British Columbia' Social and Cultural Geography 3, 117-134
52. WEI, I. 1998 'Anatomy of a new ethnic settlement: the Chinese ethnoburb in Los Angeles' Urban Studies 35, 479-501
53. YAFFE, B. 1994a 'Do the "astronaut" families pay their fair share of taxes?' Vancouver Sun 10 September, B1
54. YAFFE, B. 1994b 'Most "astronaut" families cheat on their taxes, accountant says' Vancouver Sun 24 September, B1
55. ZHOU, Y., and TSENG, Y. 2001 'Regrounding the "ungrounded empires": localization as the geographical catalyst for transnationalism' Global Networks 1, 131-153