Millionaire Migrants
Trans-Pacific Life Lines
RGS-IBG Book Series
1. Edition March 2010
328 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
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.
approachable style and supplemented with an extensive bibliography.
Scholars and students in migration studies, especially those who
are interested in the Vancouver case, will certainly find this book
enjoyable and useful." (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 10
November 2011)
"This is a book to dip into to find inspiration." (PPR,
May 2010)'Students of international migrants typically focus
on the trials and tribulations of poor and low-skilled people in a
not very welcoming society. Their work, while valuable, does not
always reflect the intricacies of the processes of international
mobility and transnational connectivity as we know them today.
David Ley's multi-level study is a welcome correction to this
one-sided representation. He carefully addresses the various
aspects of the complex lives of millionaire migrants, resulting in
a well-written and insightful book.'
--Jan Rath, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES),
University of Amsterdam
'In Millionaire Migrants, David Ley once more demonstrates
his international leadership in the field of social and cultural
Geography, with this dazzling account of the transnational
circulatory flows of Chinese between East Asia and Canada. Ley sees
through the claims made for the success of business migration to
the rather more modest achievements underneath.'
--Ceri Peach, University of Oxford
